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Open source

Telcos, Media & Tech

Musk hits back at OpenAI’s claim he’s on quest to harm startup

The pace of China’s open-source AI push has been relentless since the debut in January of DeepSeek R1.
Opinion & Features

Why China is suddenly flooding the market with powerful AI models

Tencent’s five new 3D-content generators are built atop its Hunyuan3D-2.0 model, all of which it intends to open-source to users.
Global Enterprise

Tencent touts open-source AI models to turn text into 3D visuals

Deepseek will open source five code repositories next week, describing the move as “small but sincere progress” that it will share “with full transparency.”
Startups & Tech

DeepSeek to share some AI model code, doubling down on open source

DeepSeek-R1 was trained using only 2,788 GPUs, achieving a 96 per cent reduction in training costs compared with other leading AI models.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

AI’s open-source moment could be the turning point for its future

Keen to increase market share, Baidu announced on Thursday that it would make its AI chatbot Ernie Bot free starting April 1, about a year and a half after introducing premium versions.
International

China’s Baidu to make latest Ernie AI model open-source as competition heats up

The author describes DeepSeek as a Monkey King, or Wukong, moment in the global AI landscape.
Opinion & Features

Open source and under control: The DeepSeek paradox

DeepSeek has garnered international attention with its latest models, shocking Silicon Valley and investors with their capabilities and efficiency.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

DeepSeek’s breakthroughs are too big for the US to ban

The open-source models, numbering more than 100, come from Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 family, its latest foundational large language model released in May.
Telcos, Media & Tech

Alibaba accelerates AI push by releasing new open-source models, text-to-video

Microsoft is paying Inflection US$650 million in licensing fees in a deal designed to make investors whole.
Opinion & Features

The tech giants are eating the chatbot kings

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