Open source

OpenClaw’s rapid rise exposes ‘shadow AI’ risks in Singapore firms

Cloud service provider Baidu, along with its rivals Alibaba’s Alicloud and Tencent Cloud, has launched services allowing users to rent servers to run OpenClaw remotely, rather than on personal devices.

China warns of security risks linked to OpenClaw open-source AI agent

An attorney for Elon Musk asked a judge to brush aside allegations that he has weaponized legal claims, social media posts and attacks in the press to try to sabotage OpenAI’s success.

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

By open-sourcing AI models, such as DeepSeek R1, Chinese tech groups create an ecosystem where global developers continuously improve their models – without shouldering all the development costs.

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.

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.”

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.
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.

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.

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.
THE BOTTOM LINE

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