China wants to dominate in AI — and some of its models are already beating their U.S. rivals

CNBC December 16, 2024
Arjun Kharpal

Key Points

– Chinese AI models are already hugely popular and are keeping pace with — and even surpassing — some U.S. rivals, industry experts told CNBC.

– Many Chinese firms are purusing open source, or open weight, large language models as a way to increase innovation and spread their use.

– Chinese LLMs are among the most popular on Hugging Face, a repository for AI models.

China’s attempts to dominate the world of artificial intelligence could be paying off, with industry insiders and technology analysts telling CNBC that Chinese AI models are already hugely popular and are keeping pace with — and even surpassing — those from the U.S. in terms of performance.

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