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Why China still can't walk away from open AI
Financial Express Lucknow
|April 20, 2026
CHINA'S AI ECOSYSTEM has one defining difference from Silicon Valley: its embrace of open source.
While America's biggest companies race to build ever more powerful systems and insist only they can control them, Chinese labs have been giving the technology away for free.Open source-making a model available for anyone to use, download and build on-once seemed a niche, nerdy topic that no one besides developers cared about. But when a new technology is driving trillions of dollars of investments and leading to immense concentrations of power, it offers an antidote. But it may have been too good to last.
DeepSeek's breakthrough R1 model spurred a frenetic year in Al academic research labs in the developing world.
OPEN SOURCE ONCE SEEMED A NICHE, NERDY TOPIC THAT NO ONE CARED ABOUT
This story is from the April 20, 2026 edition of Financial Express Lucknow.
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