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Can’t watch the video what ai do the Chinese offer? Is it safe?
It’s a lot cheaper to use hosted models and it’s open source so you can run them in house and customize them any way you like. And in terms of quality, there’s no significant difference. So, everybody is naturally using cheap and open models.
Among others, the Qwen Coder and Instruct models (by Alibaba) are generally well regarded; MIT Technology Review had a good analysis of Chinese open-weight models in February 2026 – https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/