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- Ant Group Open-Sourced a 124-Billion-Parameter Multimodal Model — and Taught It to Check Its Own Work — 2026-09-10
- WeChat Open-Sourced the Model That Reads a Billion Posts a Day — 2026-09-09
- DeepSeek Cut API Prices 60% — and the Cheapest Part Is Memory, Not Thinking — 2026-09-09
- A 30-Billion-Parameter Model Now Runs on a Phone. The Hard Part Was Never Compute — It Was Heat — 2026-09-08
- The Open Weight Shift: How Chinese Labs Changed the Default Setting of AI — 2026-09-07
- Alibaba Open-Sourced Its Self-Driving Model. Will the £30,000 Driver-Assist Option Hold Its Price? — 2026-09-07
- Why Nearly Half of American AI Tokens Now Run on Chinese Open Models — 2026-09-03
- Efficiency Is the Moat: How Chinese Labs Made Frontier AI Cheap — 2026-09-01
- 55 Trillion Tokens a Week: Why Chinese Models Lead the World on Usage, Not on Benchmarks — 2026-09-01
- The Default in Jakarta, Lagos and São Paulo: Why Open Chinese Models Won the Global South — 2026-08-25