In the global AI race, a sanctioned Chinese firm says cheaper models can still win

China’s artificial intelligence race has no finish line. DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba and even consumer electronics firm Xiaomi have all dropped new models in recent weeks, jostling for position on leaderboards. From native AI startups to platform giants, companies across the sector face growing pressure to innovate, expand their user base and find paths to…

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US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (NBC News)

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With GPT-5's launch, OpenAI has removed its older models like GPT-4o and o3 from the ChatGPT model selector, sparking a backlash from some users (Michael Kan/PCMag)

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