“China is going all in on free open AI models that teach each other to get smarter, and that could hand its tech giants a powerful edge the US won't replicate.”
“when Deepseek hit and took off... Alibaba made Qwen open source. Xiaomi has a model out now... And Robin Li at Baidu had kept his model proprietary and he said in June it's going to be open source.”
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