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Top labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind continue to guard their most advanced models. Even those who have released open versions, Meta with Llama, Google with Gemma, do so cautiously, and often at a safe technical distance from their most profitable offerings.
China is advancing in the global AI race through transparency, speed, and a deliberate effort to lead in open source, as seen with Alibaba’s Qwen3-Coder, GLM 4.5 or Kimi K2.
This isn’t just a question of capability. It’s a question of strategy. And the two largest AI ecosystems in the world are now playing by very different rules.
Why
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