{"id":74540,"date":"2025-07-19T05:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/74540\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T05:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:04:15","slug":"how-chinas-open-source-ai-is-helping-deepseek-alibaba-take-on-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/74540\/","title":{"rendered":"How China\u2019s open-source AI is helping DeepSeek, Alibaba take on Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 9, 2024, may be remembered as a day of humiliation for China\u2019s artificial intelligence<\/a> community. On that day, US start-up OpenAI, the global leader in AI model development, blocked developers in China<\/a> \u2013 including Hong Kong and Macau \u2013 from using its GPT models.<\/p>\n

In contrast, developers from countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe were given access, reflecting OpenAI\u2019s unspoken belief that its valuable models must be safeguarded against misuse by China, along with Iran, Russia and North Korea.<\/p>\n

Now the tide has turned. With the December 2024 launch of DeepSeek\u2019s free-for-all V3 large language model (LLM) and the January release of DeepSeek\u2019s R1, an AI reasoning model that rivals the capabilities of OpenAI\u2019s o1, the open-source movement started by Chinese firms has sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street.<\/p>\n

The trend has not only unleashed a wave of AI applications in China, but also redefined the global AI landscape, winning the support of developers worldwide. Chinese open-source models present a viable alternative to the closed-off systems championed by US tech giants like OpenAI and Google.<\/p>\n

Open-source AI models \u2013 whose source code and model weights are available for anyone to use, modify, and distribute \u2013 encourage a collaborative approach to AI development.<\/p>\n

While in the past, open-source computer systems like Linux failed to replace proprietary competitors like Microsoft\u2019s Windows, analysts said that this time around, China\u2019s free-to-use AI models posed a serious challenge to US counterparts.<\/p>\n

\"NvidiaNvidia CEO Jensen Huang, donning a traditional Chinese Tang jacket, attends the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Wednesday. Photo: Kyodo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 9, 2024, may be remembered as a day of humiliation for China\u2019s artificial intelligence community. On that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[7574,691,30521,6229,738,4740,24442,9710,302,74,2013,66,2722,8464,83,2010,46961,51950,24952,7062,252,51948,51954,24240,1671,51947,305,51946,51952,1589,51949,51951,257,923,15322,15243,158,1996,67,132,68,3642,744,51953],"class_list":{"0":"post-74540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-afghanistan","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-alibaba","11":"tag-amazon-com","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-baidu","15":"tag-beijing","16":"tag-chatgpt","17":"tag-china","18":"tag-deepseek","19":"tag-elon-musk","20":"tag-google","21":"tag-hong-kong","22":"tag-iran","23":"tag-jensen-huang","24":"tag-linux","25":"tag-liu-zhi","26":"tag-macau","27":"tag-meta-platforms","28":"tag-microsoft","29":"tag-minimax","30":"tag-moonshot-ai","31":"tag-north-korea","32":"tag-nvidia","33":"tag-oleap","34":"tag-openai","35":"tag-openrouter","36":"tag-peoples-tribune","37":"tag-phoenix","38":"tag-qwen","39":"tag-ray-wang","40":"tag-russia","41":"tag-sam-altman","42":"tag-silicon-valley","43":"tag-south-korea","44":"tag-technology","45":"tag-tencent-holdings","46":"tag-united-states","47":"tag-unitedstates","48":"tag-us","49":"tag-wall-street","50":"tag-xai","51":"tag-xu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}