China's Lead in Open-Source AI Jolts Washington and Silicon Valley (msn.com)
(Wednesday August 13, 2025 @11:36AM (msmash)
from the closer-look dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/13/1536215/chinas-lead-in-open-source-ai-jolts-washington-and-silicon-valley
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/china-s-lead-in-open-source-ai-jolts-washington-and-silicon-valley/ar-AA1KpRea
China has [1]established a lead in the field of open-source AI , a development that is reportedly sending jolts through both Washington and Silicon Valley. The nation's progress has become a significant event for American policymakers in the U.S. capital. The advancement has registered as a shock within Silicon Valley, the hub of the American technology industry. From the report:
> The overall performance of China's best open-weight model has surpassed the American open-source champion since November, according to research firm Artificial Analysis. The firm, which rates the ability of models in math, coding and other areas, found a version of Alibaba's Qwen3 beat OpenAI's gpt-oss.
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> However, the Chinese model is almost twice as big as OpenAI's, suggesting that for simpler tasks, Qwen might consume more computing power to do the same job. OpenAI said its open-source model outperformed rivals of similar size on reasoning tasks and delivered strong performance at low cost.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/china-s-lead-in-open-source-ai-jolts-washington-and-silicon-valley/ar-AA1KpRea
> The overall performance of China's best open-weight model has surpassed the American open-source champion since November, according to research firm Artificial Analysis. The firm, which rates the ability of models in math, coding and other areas, found a version of Alibaba's Qwen3 beat OpenAI's gpt-oss.
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> However, the Chinese model is almost twice as big as OpenAI's, suggesting that for simpler tasks, Qwen might consume more computing power to do the same job. OpenAI said its open-source model outperformed rivals of similar size on reasoning tasks and delivered strong performance at low cost.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/china-s-lead-in-open-source-ai-jolts-washington-and-silicon-valley/ar-AA1KpRea
FOMO (Score:2, Insightful)
China is intentionally throwing enterprise grade resources at this so called open source project; The equivalent doesn't get the same in America, It has to be funded by a large company and then graciously given to the public as a landmine that helps the company, giving out to intentionally misdirect everybody.
Because the open source stuff doesn't have the same architecture as the closed source stuff and the open source stuff for meta is just the stuff that they don't want anymore, it's the cast off version