These benchmark numbers are insane. The days when China was 6 months behind are over? How are they doing this with so much less resources than the US??? I have so much respect for the researchers there
Build the data centers in middle eastern and other asian countries. Access it remotely.
There's no real way to restrict this without turning the internet into a draconian locked down shell of itself.
Kimi K3 beats each model (out of 35 benchmarks, excluding missing):
vs Fable 5 : 12/35 (34%) (ties: 1)
vs GPT 5.6 Sol : 19/34 (56%) (ties: 1)
vs Opus 4.8 : 30/35 (86%)
vs GPT 5.5 : 30/34 (88%) (ties: 2)
vs GLM-5.2 : 19/19 (100%)
Re: GLM-5.2: For a ~750b model, it holds up pretty good against models 3x its size (and ~10x the cost). Same goes for Tencent Hy3 and MiniMax M3, which almost match Opus 4.6 levels with ~295b params.