Two new Chinese artificial intelligence models have broken into a top 10 leaderboard for both open- and closed-source models, highlighting China’s progress in closing the gap with leading US developers. Alibaba Group Holding’s 1 trillion-parameter Qwen3-max-preview model debuted in sixth place in the latest “text arena” ranking by LMArena – an AI model evaluation platform started by University of California, Berkeley researchers – making it the top Chinese model. Meanwhile, Alibaba-backed...