At the annual Spring Festival Gala, the Lunar New Year show in China, humanoid robots from Chinese startup Unitree Robotics flipped, lunged, and swung swords and nunchucks just feet from child performers in a tightly choreographed kung fu routine.
"Models are commodities that can be easily swapped out," said Ritwik Gupta, an AI researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. "A lot of developers are using Alibaba's Qwen3, which is powerful and flexible."
Donald Trump has called on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign, stating, "The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately." This remark triggered concern and stock volatility for Intel.
Chinese firms like RedNote are deploying open-source LLMs not just as models but as instruments of ecosystem control and geopolitical leverage. Meanwhile, Western firms remain committed to proprietary architectures.
The researchers, the AI scientists in China, they're world-class. These are not Chinese AI researchers, they're world-class AI researchers.