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Reporting on our latest deep dive Report into AI Openness 📊 , @Computing’s @JohnLeonard says: “China is taking the lead in AI, thanks to an open source AI strategy it has pursued over the last eight years. This has seen a steady stream of breakthrough models – such as DeepSeek, Qwen and Kimi – with open weights, little or no restriction on usage, and heavily reduced costs to the end user.”

And quotes our CEO @Amanda Brock saying: “As China’s models have met the pace of innovation of the proprietary US frontier models, the US’s strategy has shifted into turmoil,” “Rumours abound of a ban on open source models.” 🚨

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