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SemiAnalysis: 3.6% of 857 Chinese AI model releases published safety results
SemiAnalysis checked 857 releases from nine Chinese developers through Sept. 15, 2026, and found 31 (3.6%) with a developer-published safety result and 9 (1.1%) with one at or before launch. Late results came a median 42 days after release. It says 93% of reasoning models have no published results and DeepSeek documented V3 at launch but not R1.
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Just 3.6% of Chinese AI releases came with safety results
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