[Report: Performance Gap Between Top AI Models in China and the U.S. Narrows to 3%, Hits Historic Low] According to Bloomberg, Robert Lea, a senior analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, stated in his latest report that with the release of V4.1 Flash by DeepSeek in September, the performance gap between China's top AI models and their U.S. counterparts in benchmark test scores has narrowed to 3%, down from approximately 9% in May and about 15% at the beginning of the year, marking a historic low. Lea believes that the performance improvement will drive Chinese AI companies to further expand their market share.