China’s focus on ‘diffusion’ and open-source may prove a better AI play than the U.S.’s drive for ‘perfection’

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China’s focus on ‘diffusion’ and open-source may prove a better AI play than the U.S.’s drive for ‘perfection’

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When DeepSeek released its buzzy AI model, developers celebrated its high-performance and low compute costs—and the Chinese research lab’s decision to release the model on an open-source basis, allowing anyone to download and tweak it for their own ends.
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