Chinese cloud giant Alibaba's Qwen family of open-wieght models surpass Meta Platforms's Llama models on HuggingFace. Stanford HAI
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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 intelligence startup OpenAI began with a mission of transparency in AI, a mission it abandoned in 2022 as the company began to withhold details of its technology.
In the breach, Chinese companies and institutions have taken the lead.
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"Leadership in AI now depends not only on proprietary systems but on the reach, adoption, and normative influence of open-weight models worldwide," wrote lead author Caroline Meinhardt, a policy research manager at Stanford University's Human-Centered AI institute, HAI, in a report released last week, "Beyond DeepSeek: China's Diverse Open-Weight AI Ecosystem and its Policy Implications."
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