Mode VC Chart: Chinese AI Models vs. US Models: How Close Is China? is answering right now. Last checked 11 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.
qwen3.8-max trails claude-fable-5.1-max by 27 points. Over the past year the gap has stayed.
Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 21 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.
Today is the operative word: we check Mode VC Chart: Chinese AI Models vs. US Models: How Close Is China? every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.
claude mcp add chart-chinese-ai-models-vs-us-models --transport http https://modevc.com/api/mcp/chart-chinese-ai-models-vs-us-models
https://modevc.com/api/mcp/chart-chinese-ai-models-vs-us-models
[mcp_servers.chart-chinese-ai-models-vs-us-models]
url = "https://modevc.com/api/mcp/chart-chinese-ai-models-vs-us-models"
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"mcpServers": {
"chart-chinese-ai-models-vs-us-models": {
"url": "https://modevc.com/api/mcp/chart-chinese-ai-models-vs-us-models"
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"chart-chinese-ai-models-vs-us-models": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://modevc.com/api/mcp/chart-chinese-ai-models-vs-us-models"
}
}
}
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
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| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://modevc.com/api/mcp/chart-chinese-ai-models-vs-us-models | streamable-http | answering | 817 ms | 11 min ago |
The best open model trails the best closed model by 42 Arena points. In a blind vote it would.
Qwen3.8-Max rates within 30 Arena points of Claude Opus 5.5 for 3.3× less per output token..
Google leads the Arena again; Anthropic trails by 22 points and OpenAI by 62. Query full.
Google holds #1 in 6 of 8 Arena categories; Anthropic in 2. OpenAI has no category in the top.
Open weights briefly beat every proprietary model in early 2025 (deepseek-r1); today the best.
14 models are statistically tied for #1 in Arena math, spanning 49 points. 4 are Flash models.
The gap between Arena's #1 and #10 models fell from 148 points in Feb 2024 to 18. #10 now wins.
Anthropic builds 14 of the Arena's top 50 models and OpenAI builds 5. But 44% of US adults use.
Answers built from our own checks of this server.