SMRTR AIMar 22, 2026Daily.dev

China is winning the open source AI race — but a US company still controls everything underneath

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China leads the US in open-source AI models, capturing 41% of Hugging Face downloads versus 36.5% for US models, driven by cost-effective successes like DeepSeek R1, though Nvidia still controls the hardware infrastructure.

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