South Korean media: China's AI market share has surged nearly 25 times!
On February 15, the South Korean media "Global Economy" published an article stating that the leading global artificial intelligence (AI) company Open AI said that China's open-source AI models are rapidly capturing the global market. Analysis shows that after just one year of DeepSeek, a Chinese startup, releasing the R1 model, the global usage rate of China's AI systems has approached 30%, and the competition between China and the United States in AI has entered a new stage.
Recently, OpenAI released a report titled "DeepSeek at 1". The report states that China is rapidly changing the global AI landscape by exporting low-cost models based on open-source and "self-reliant AI" systems to Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
According to data from the API platform Open Router, the usage of China's open-source AI models will reach a peak in 2025, accounting for nearly 30% of the global market. This means that within less than a year, this proportion has increased nearly 25 times compared to 1.2% at the end of 2024. Open AI analysis points out that China's AI systems have reached near-top-level performance by using open-source frameworks and active pricing strategies. It is assessed that the strategy targeting different industry customers is effective.
The United States currently leads in advanced model capabilities and scientific reasoning. However, Open AI also acknowledges that China has made considerable progress in deeply and widely deploying AI models across multiple industrial fields.
China is building its own AI ecosystem and advocating the concept of "self-reliant AI". They support domestic industrial AI applications and export integrated AI solutions containing models, cloud services, and hardware to strategic partner regions.
Access to computing power remains a key factor limiting China's AI development. Open AI stated that U.S. export controls restrict China's access to key components needed for training and large-scale deployment of advanced AI models. Some Chinese AI researchers have publicly called for accelerating innovation in computing infrastructure to address this bottleneck.
Open AI stated that the three key factors determining the AI competition landscape in 2026 are: whether the United States can maintain its advantage in application-oriented AI models; whether China can independently obtain sufficient computing power; and how China will effectively deploy the global AI ecosystem.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1857179111786695/
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