Is China quietly winning the AI race?
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Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Alibaba's Qwen are rapidly gaining adoption among major US companies including Pinterest and Airbnb, who praise them as faster, cheaper, and more customizable than American alternatives like OpenAI's ChatGPT. These open-source Chinese models now dominate download rankings on platforms like Hugging Face, with Stanford research suggesting China has caught up or pulled ahead in AI development while US companies focus on expensive proprietary systems.
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