Is the next China shock already brewing in the AI industry following the impacts of DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Manus? Initial data now published on the LLM comparison platform Arena.ai suggest so. The new AI model Dola-Seed-2.0 has entered the ranking very high in a preview version and even ranks ahead of the current top model from xAI (Grok-4.1) from Elon Musk’s company or ahead of LLMs like Gemini 3 or Claude Opus 4.5, which were class leaders not so long ago. According to initial test runs,