"I don't want an oligopoly": New open-weight AI models mount a comeback against China
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What happened
A new crop of powerful, Western open-weight AI systems are mounting a comeback, with fresh models from Reflection and Mistral narrowing China's recent lead. Why it matters: These models and others will give businesses and governments alternatives to the closed ecosystems of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as to Chinese options they may have eschewed for security reasons. But putting powerful model weights into the wor…
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