IT China’s open AI models are in a dead heat with the West – here’s what happens next Published 3 weeks ago on December 21, 2025 By ZDNet [ad_1] Chinese cloud giant Alibaba’s Qwen family of open-wieght models surpass Meta Platforms’s Llama models on HuggingFace. Stanford HAI Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Chinese AI models have caught up to US models in power and performance. China is leading in model openness. Much of the world may adopt the freely available Chinese technology. The US artificial intelligence startup OpenAI began with a mission of transparency in AI, a mission it abandoned in 2022 as… [ad_2] Source link Related Topics: