"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."
""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.""
""Today, Chinese-made open-weight models are unavoidable in the global competitive AI landscape," said Meinhardt and collaborators."
Chinese large language models have reached parity with leading US models in power and performance. Chinese providers emphasize open-weight models and release them broadly and freely. Models such as Alibaba's Qwen and DeepSeek are statistically competitive with Anthropic's Claude and close to top OpenAI and Google models. Many countries, especially developing nations, are likely to adopt these open models as an inexpensive alternative to building domestic AI from scratch. OpenAI shifted away from transparency in 2022, creating space for Chinese openness. Legal disputes over training data and AI use remain active between major companies.
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