The Chinese model, the world’s largest open-weight model publicly available, dropped a few minutes shy of the expected 11AM ET. The timing of the release clearly targets the US market and it is already having a major impact on American AI, as shown by the furious debate surrounding open AI (not to be confused with OpenAI) systems.
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