Xiaomi is showing early progress in open-source AI, a year after its launch. The company has committed $8.8 billion to AI over three years, aiming to integrate AI across its hardware and devices. Analysts see AI as crucial for consumer tech companies.
DeepSeek's V4 Pro model ranked second globally among open-source AI models, trailing Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6, according to benchmark firm Artificial Analysis. While V4 Pro showed improvement over its predecessor V3.2, it still lagged behind top competitors, highlighting challenges facing Chinese AI firms racing to close the gap with the US amid intensifying competition and computing power constraints.
In China’s hyper-competitive and lucrative tech industry, releasing cutting-edge artificial intelligence models for free may seem counter-intuitive – but it has become a core business strategy. At the University of Hong Kong last November, Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai was asked why the tech giant open-sourced its AI models. Addressing a room full of students, Tsai said he believed open-source AI would bring global benefits by lowering costs, making it a natural fit for talent- and...
