State of Open Models Summer 2026: Chinese labs' largest models surpass US releases nearly every month
pmttyji · reddit · 2026-08-15
Reddit user pmttyji shares a blog post 'State of Open Models: Summer 2026 Observations' with two key quotes: 1) In almost every month of 2026, the largest and most performant open model from a Chinese lab was larger than anything an American lab released; 2) U.S. participation in open source AI is still growing. The post contains lots of info and graphs.
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