China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic
What’s more, at just 284 billion parameters, it’s small enough to run on relatively modest enterprise servers and workstations.Chinese model devs like Moonshot, Alibaba, and DeepSeek are now attacking their American counterparts on both price and performance. The pincer movement comes as US model devs like Anthropic and OpenAI stoke fears over the origins and safety of China-made AI models. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); In a recent blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei insisted he’s not opposed to open models, just ones made in China, ones distilled from proprietary models, and ones that do not meet rigorous safety metrics.
- ▪What’s more, at just 284 billion parameters, it’s small enough to run on relatively modest enterprise servers and workstations.Chinese model devs like Moonshot, Alibaba, and DeepSeek are now attacking their American counterparts on both pri
- ▪The pincer movement comes as US model devs like Anthropic and OpenAI stoke fears over the origins and safety of China-made AI models.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); In a recent blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei insisted he’s not opposed to open models, just ones made in China, ones distilled from prop
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