As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.
Open-weights releases pressure closed pricing and widen access, changing the build-vs-buy math for the whole ecosystem.
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