China's AI Strategy: Undercutting US Closed Models with Open-Weights
wschroll · x · 2026-08-03
The post analyzes the diverging AI strategies of the US and China. While US labs push closed frontier models with high margins, Chinese labs (Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM) are releasing capable open-weight models to undercut pricing and seize the open ecosystem.
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