Stanford’s annual report reveals shocking shifts:

LLM Leaderboards: Chinese models top 38/52 tasks (vs. 12/52 in 2024)

Robotics: 91% of industrial automation patents now originate from Shenzhen

Chip Design: SMIC’s 3nm node (despite sanctions) enables 400B-transistor AI accelerators

Controversial Findings

68% of Nature/Science AI papers have Chinese lead authors

GitHub activity shows Mandarin surpassing English in ML repo documentation