US EditionAs US battles China on AI, some companies choose Chinese
Chinese AI models like DeepSeek's R1 and Alibaba's Qwen match US rivals in performance and openness, with 63% of new fine-tuned models on Hugging Face in September 2025.
- Last week, Stanford University's Human-Centered AI institute, HAI, found Chinese open-weight models in a statistical dead heat with top US models, with Caroline Meinhardt saying `Today, Chinese-made open-weight models are unavoidable in the global competitive AI landscape`.
- DeepSeek's R1 and permissive licensing from firms such as Alibaba and Baidu produced major Chinese models like Qwen3 and R1 with open licenses, while Baidu released model weights in June 2025.
- Hugging Face metrics reveal that Alibaba's Qwen family surpassed Meta Platforms' Llama and made up 63% of new fine-tuned models in September 2025, while Qwen logged 10 million downloads in its first week.
- Adoption patterns indicate diffusion to lower-resource countries, and Caroline Meinhardt and HAI observed that `the wide availability of high-performing Chinese AI models opens new pathways for organizations and individuals in less computationally resourced parts of the world to access advanced AI` this year, reducing reliance on US API providers.
- Governance and safety caveats remain: HAI warns user data may travel to China, developers apply fewer guardrails, and independent tests show bypass risks, suggesting China's AI role will persist this year.
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New York, USA. Although the U.S. is mired in bitter rivalry with China for the development of artificial intelligence (AI), Chinese technology has made discreet advances in the U.S. market.Despite considerable geopolitical tensions, Chinese open source AI models are gaining ground on a growing number of programs and companies from Americans.These are different models than closed generational AI that have become family names – such as OpenAI's Ch…
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As US battles China on AI, some companies choose Chinese
Even as the United States is embarked on a bitter rivalry with China over the deployment of artificial intelligence, Chinese technology is quietly making inroads into the US market.
Although the United States is immersed in bitter rivalry with China for the development of artificial intelligence (AI), Chinese technology has made discreet advances in the US market. Despite considerable geopolitical tensions, Chinese open source AI models are gaining ground on a growing number of programs and [...] China's entry conquers market for its AI models in the US, its nemesis was first published in Information Focus.
China wins the open model race and the price to pay goes beyond economics
For the first time in 2025, Chinese developers are seeing higher download numbers for open AI models than US providers. The article China wins the open model race and the price to pay goes beyond economics appeared first on The Decoder.
In 2025, the ratio of the download numbers of open AI models has shifted: for the first time, Chinese developers recorded higher retrieval numbers than providers from the USA. The article Semi-open AI models from China suppressed the US competition first appeared on The Decoder.
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