To be clear I'm not trying to dismiss European AI. I am a proponent of it.

But Chinese models have very much earned their place. The same cannot be said of Europe, so far.

Serious people haven't been very dimissive of Chinese models since at least DeepSeek-R1 in January 2025. Sadly, we in Europe are much behind.

Important to point out that these 'X months behind frontier' really refer to the public frontier, and not the actual frontier, which private companies are free to protect indefinitely. Perhaps open models are in actuality 18 months behind the actual frontier - how would any of us know?