The artificial intelligence boom started in the United States, but companies from China are quietly outcompeting their U.S. rivals when it comes to AI technology that anyone can freely use and build upon, according to a Washington Post analysis of publicly available data. Last year, the best freely available or “open” AI models were largely made in the United States. Now, they are all made in China.
American companies are widely seen as offering the most powerful proprietary AI tools, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini chatbots. But by openly sharing AI software, Chinese firms could have a major influence over the trajectory of technology.
Has anyone tried it out. Benchmarks are one thing but I just haven't seen any reviews of Ant LLMs.
More from Ant Group's Ling. Their reasoning models look close to SOTA.
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Free artificial intelligence technology released by Chinese tech companies appears to be more powerful and popular than that developed by American rivals
Open models from Chinese firms such as e-commerce giant Alibaba are rated higher than those from American companies such as OpenAI and Meta on LMArena, a site that uses blind tests to discover which AI outputs users prefer.
Chinese companies such as Alibaba, the maker of popular Qwen open models, are more prolific than other AI developers, said Irene Solaiman, chief policy officer at Hugging Face, a popular site used by AI developers and researchers to share models and datasets. They are “shipping frequently and shipping well, which is also how you build your user base,” she said.
Bytedance has it's sights on Kwai which is popular in Brazil.
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