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China’s focus on ‘diffusion’ and open-source may prove a better AI play than the U.S.’s drive for ‘perfection’

When DeepSeek released its buzzy AI model, developers celebrated its high-performance and low compute costs—and the Chinese research lab’s decision to release the model on an open-source basis, ...
ZDNet

China's open AI models are in a dead heat with the West - here's what happens next

Chinese AI models have caught up to US models in power and performance. China is leading in model openness. Much of the world may adopt the freely available Chinese technology. The US artificial ...
Forbes

What Leaders Need To Know About Open-Source Vs. Proprietary Models

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen next to the Chat GPT logo on a phone on January 28, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo illustration by Anthony ...
CNBC

As nations build 'sovereign AI,' open-source models and cloud computing can help, experts say

Open-source AI models and cloud computing are helping to democratize the AI world, panelists at CNBC's East Tech West 2025 in Thailand said. This will allow nations to build "sovereign AI," which ...
Wired

The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China

Since 2022, America has had a solid lead in artificial intelligence thanks to advanced models from high-flying companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI. A growing number of experts, ...
ZDNet

OpenAI returns to its open-source roots with new open-weight AI models, and it's a big deal

OpenAI releases its first open-source LLMs in six years. OpenAI's smallest AI model can run on a laptop. Early reports indicate these new models may have trouble with hallucinations. Open-weight ...
Network World

Nvidia claims 10x cost savings with open-source inference models

Nvidia noted that cost per token went from 20 cents on the older Hopper platform to 10 cents on Blackwell. Moving to ...

Alibaba unveils Qwen-3.5, sharpening global race to spread AI models

With multimodal capabilities and open weights, Qwen-3.5 signals Alibaba's ambition to anchor the next phase of global AI deployment Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its next-generation open artificial ...
Gizmodo

OpenAI Finally Lives Up to Its Name, Drops Two New Open Source AI Models

For the first time in five years, OpenAI has released two new free and open-source AI models that are lightweight and designed to be easily integrated into other software programs. In a blog post on ...