America Has a Chip Strategy. Now It Wants an Open-Model One.
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and eventually even OpenAI and Google signed a letter urging Washington to back open AI. Behind it sits an awkward number: Chinese open models now carry nearly half the world's tracked developer traffic, up from a fifth a year ago. The choice on the table is to ban China's models or out-build them.
Read full story →The Week the Open Models Got Smaller, and Better
Two Korean labs shipped rival 700-billion-parameter models 48 hours apart ahead of a government elimination round, while a turmoil-hit US startup released a model a quarter the size that beats its own predecessor. The common thread is not scale. It is how little of it you actually run.
Read full story →Choosing an AI Model Is Starting to Mean Choosing a Side
A new BCG report warns that as the US and China split into incompatible AI stacks, the Global South's cheapest option today, China's models at a tenth of the cost, could become a cage tomorrow. Africa is the test case, and the advice is to refuse to fully pick one side.
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