AIFast Company Techabout 2 hours ago
Open weight models threaten US AI companies
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Chinese open-weight frontier models from Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI have nearly matched leading Western closed models in performance by mid-2026. U.S. labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind guard their weights as trade secrets and depend on API fees. Free open-weight alternatives now threaten those business models.
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