Among open weights models, China has led since September 2025. The US and China traded the lead seven times between July 2023 and September 2025, most recently when DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus passed gpt-oss-120b.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 now scores 324, ahead of the highest-scoring US open weights model, Muse Spark Open, at 307.
