By Tiernan Ray
Publication Date: 2025-12-21 11:00:00
Chinese cloud giant Alibaba’s Qwen family of open models outperforms Meta Platforms’ Llama models on HuggingFace.
Stanford HAI
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Key insights from ZDNET
- Chinese AI models have caught up with US models in terms of power and performance.
- China is a leader in model openness.
- Much of the world could adopt freely available Chinese technology.
US artificial intelligence startup OpenAI began a mission of transparency in AI, a mission it abandoned in 2022 when the company began withholding details of its technology.
Chinese companies and institutions have taken the lead in the breach.
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“Leadership in AI today depends not only on proprietary systems, but also on the reach, acceptance and normative influence of open-weight models worldwide,” wrote lead author Caroline Meinhardt, policy research manager at Stanford University’s Human-Centered AI Institute, HAI,…
