Why China is giving away its best AI models
Image: LONG WEI/ Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty ImagesRobert HartCloseRobert HartPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. AI systems are more complicated, and very few are truly open in the traditional software sense. Most companies instead release something called model weights — the numerical parameters learned during an AI’s training period — while keeping other crucial components, including training data, code, model architecture, and configuration methods, private.
- ▪Image: LONG WEI/ Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty ImagesRobert HartCloseRobert HartPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Robert Hart is a London-based reporter
- ▪AI systems are more complicated, and very few are truly open in the traditional software sense.
- ▪Most companies instead release something called model weights — the numerical parameters learned during an AI’s training period — while keeping other crucial components, including training data, code, model architecture, and configuration m
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AICloseAIPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All AIReportCloseReportPosts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All ReportWhy China is giving away its best AI modelsChinese labs like Moonshot are forcing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to rethink what they lock away.Chinese labs like Moonshot are forcing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to rethink what they lock away.by Robert HartCloseRobert HartAI ReporterPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.FollowFollowSee All by Robert HartJul 27, 2026, 4:51 PM UTCLinkShareGiftPeople visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI…
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