Many Chinese companies also introduce products at a faster pace than their American counterparts: Alibaba released a new model roughly every 20 days this year, compared with Anthropic’s 47-day average between releases.Nathan Lambert, a senior research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI and an expert on the open-model AI ecosystem, told NBC News that Chinese models’ recent progress is no fluke.“The Chinese are genuine innovators in AI,” Lambert said.The “balance of power has been shifting ra...