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Why are Chinese labs so focused on open models?

Chinese labs seem way more willing to release open-weight models while the big US labs keep everything closed. My theory is that if Chinese labs are more comfortable opening the weights, maybe they don't think the weights are the real moat in the AI race. Could the real moat actually be specialized…

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  1. 2026-09-27 19:41 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Why are Chinese labs so focused on open models?

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