Researcher Praises Open Source AI: Gap with Frontier Closing Rapidly
Xianbao_QIAN · x · 2026-08-01
AI researcher Xianbao Qian highlighted the rapid progress of recent open source models. He noted that new releases from Kimi, Zhipu, DeepSeek, and Xiaomi have established a new frontier for the open source community. The gap with closed-source models is closing incredibly fast within just a month or two, and he anticipates even more significant breakthroughs by the end of the year.
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