four chinese labs shipped frontier-scale models within six weeks of each other this summer.
kimi k3: 2.8T params, artificial analysis score of 57
deepseek v4 flash: 13B active params, score of 50, way cheaper to run
qwen 3.8 max: 2.4T multimodal flagship
all four run a 1M token context window. the gap with the labs everyone watches just got a lot smaller.