America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI

The Verge argues that recent launches of Chinese AI models Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8, which caused market wobbles and comparisons to DeepSeek, should not be surprising given that six of the top 10 AI tools on OpenRouter's leaderboard are already Chinese. The piece criticizes repeated 'Sputnik moment' rhetoric and notes that the performance gap between US and Chinese AI has been narrowing for years.