"If the West takes no action, China will become the leader in the open-source field," the concern of the former CEO of Google is becoming a reality!
In February, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of US-based Google, issued a warning: "Western countries need to focus on building open-source AI large models, otherwise they may lose the global competition in this cutting-edge technology to China."
The basis for his judgment is that, apart from Meta's Llama, most of America's top AI large models are closed-source, whereas China already has top-tier open-source large models like Alibaba Cloud's Qwen series and DeepSeek. Therefore, he worries that if Western countries do nothing, China will become the leader in the open-source domain.
It can be said that the concern of the former CEO of Google is justified, as his words have been further validated in just over a month since then. Not long ago, the largest open-source community HF updated its large model ranking list, and China's open-source large models caught significant attention.
In particular, Alibaba Cloud's end-to-end multimodal large model Qwen2.5-Omni, which was recently released as open-source, topped the overall ranking. Close behind were DeepSeek-V3-0324 and Coohom's SpatialLM-Llama-1B, showing that China's open-source large models have once again achieved a remarkable victory overseas.
We must understand that, with AI development accelerating, the significance of developing open-source large models is far greater than that of closed-source large models, enabling more enterprises and industries to enjoy the benefits of AI. Like Alibaba Cloud's Qwen2.5-Omni, its small size of only 7B makes the widespread deployment of full-modal large models on the terminal and in industries possible, quickly triggering a global wave of downloads and deployments by developers and enterprises after its release.
In fact, it's not just the performance of open-source large models; Chinese companies have surpassed foreign tech giants. In terms of the number of open-source large models, we are also leading. It should be noted that Qwen2.5-Omni is just one of many open-source models from Alibaba, which has so far opened up over 200 models globally, with the number of derivative models from Qwen surpassing 100,000, surpassing the US Llama series to become the largest open-source model group in the world.
Clearly, China's development in the field of open-source large models is comprehensive, and the speed is very fast, reflecting the continuous rise of China's technological strength.
Original article: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1828901874323467/
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