OpenAI's Open Source Pivot Shows How U.S. Tech Is Trying to Catch up to China's AI Surge

OpenAI's open source pivot shows how U.S. tech is trying to catch up to China's AI surge

OpenAI, the developer behind ChatGPT, released two bombshell AI developments last week. Last Thursday, it released GPT-5, the long-awaited update to its powerful GPT model.  But OpenAI’s earlier decision to release open-source versions of its powerful model—the first time it’s done so since 2020, may be more consequential. OpenAI’s move follows a flood of Chinese AI models spurred by the surprise release from Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. It’s a …

American AI Companies Open Up To Counter China

American AI Companies Open Up To Counter China Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), OpenAI on Aug. 5 released two open-weight language models, the company’s first such release since GPT-2 in 2019. This illustration photograph shows screens displaying the logo of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence company that develops open-source large language models, and the logo of OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot C…

U.S. ATOM Project Counters China’s Open-Source AI Dominance

In the escalating race for artificial intelligence supremacy, a new U.S. initiative is emerging as a bold counterstrike against China’s growing dominance in open-source AI technologies. Dubbed the ATOM project, this ambitious effort seeks to reclaim American leadership by fostering collaborative, transparent AI development that aligns with democratic values. Backed by a coalition of tech firms, government agencies, and academic institutions, ATO…

Initiative Seeks AI Lab to Build 'American Truly Open Models' (ATOM)