china just dropped a wave of frontier AI models in one week. the US is falling behind. this is february 2026: USA 🇺🇸 Opus 4.6 (shipped Feb 5) GPT-5.3-Codex (shipped Feb 5) Gemini Deep Think (not a new model but strongest reasoning capabilities) GPT-5.3 general (Polymarket: ~49% by Feb 28) Sonnet 5 “Fennec” (leaked. imminent.) China 🇨🇳 GLM-5 (Feb 11. 744B params. open weights. highest open-weight Intelligence Index score yet) MiniMax M2.5 (Feb 12. SWE-bench 80.2%. ~10% the cost of Opus per verified task) Doubao 2.0 (Feb 14. ByteDance says GPT-5.2 level at ~10x less) Qwen 3.5 (imminent. code activity already visible on HuggingFace) DeepSeek V4 (expected next week. Engram memory. 1M+ context reported. super interesting for openclaw) Kimi K2.5 (coordinates up to 100 sub-agents simultaneously) ...