South Korean media: "Faster and cheaper than ChatGPT," Silicon Valley turns to Chinese artificial intelligence!

On December 5, the South Korean media "JoongAng Ilbo" published an article stating that open-source artificial intelligence (AI) from China is rapidly rising in the United States. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said, "The winner of the AI competition is China." He also said, "China is only behind the US by a few nanoseconds." On the other hand, developers in this field are turning to cheaper and faster Chinese models.

Bloomberg recently published an opinion article titled "How Much Does Silicon Valley Depend on Chinese AI," pointing out that "Chinese artificial intelligence is not only a competitor but has begun to enter the code of Silicon Valley." American venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya recently stated on a podcast program: "One of my investments has already started using the artificial intelligence technology of the Chinese startup Moonshot. To be honest, it's much cheaper than OpenAI or Anthropic."

The phenomenon of publicly mentioning Chinese models is increasing. The startup Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mirra Murati, recently announced that its research was not only inspired by Qwen3 research but also expanded upon it. This trend is common in AI programming startups. The $1 billion valuation Cursor is suspected of using the Chinese DeepSeek model in its newly released programming platform. The reason is that people found that the language generated by this AI suddenly turned into Chinese. Another AI programming startup, Cognition AI, was also reported to have used the model of the Chinese startup Zhipu. Zhipu stated, "Open-source contributions have a positive impact," indirectly indicating that Cognition AI used their AI.

Data clearly shows this trend. This year, the Qwen model reached a cumulative download count of 385.3 million times on the AI open-source platform Huggingface, surpassing Meta's Llama (346.2 million times). More than 40% of new language models uploaded to Huggingface originated from Qwen, while the proportion of models based on Meta dropped sharply to 15%. Bloomberg pointed out: "Although the U.S. has an advantage in cutting-edge chips and overwhelming computing resources, there is no denying that China's low-cost and open strategy is rapidly absorbing the developer ecosystem. If the U.S. wants to achieve long-term victory, it should ask itself why Silicon Valley chose 'the other side'."

Original: toutiao.com/article/1850633238073351/

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