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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:00:41 GMT
Subject: China takes the lead on open-source AI
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Plus: OpenAI acquires Astral.
March 20, 2026
China takes the lead on open-source AI
A new report highlights a shift in the center gravity in the AI model galaxy toward China, reports Paul Sawers in today’s lead story.
While China is gaining ground in the models themselves, the infrastructure those models run on remains firmly in Nvidia’s hands.
Go deeper: China is winning the open source AI race — but a US company still controls everything underneath (https://info.thenewstack.io/e3t/Ctc/L2+113/d5qLSh04/VVwYb_7Q-JYxW4C02hQ3wB7ynW39GxQ75LVj7YN5q1hkn3prCCW7Y8-PT6lZ3pBW4swsLk12DLdhW5tl9t043jc5-W8DH37X7KGw15W382wmc7WsmDNW1gwvxf6PVGzfW6yzvVj5hf_2PW8v6zJX2t5cZ2W6w0T3s2Bpr9PW4nbz9w7Wb44hW5CDLcv47K49HW4B6-tl9g1lnRW2hM90W72q9KPW61dTKj4RTK2hW2h_hGF90yxLDW8pjvyh2JB9zZW5wH8Zk3_sXwtW6bbcTc8zKgzbN95N_llG5SS7W6TlwqL4hSz6GW2xPyrc3gFnw0W8nljgj5wGCqYW7HqqqB5H0t_4W33jkvh2TBFjxVxbndB4hkh3LN5PNt5y3P_scW8YHTY78tfYHNf6rxRpl04 )
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China is winning the open source AI race — but a US company still controls everything underneath
Featued image for: China is winning the open source AI race — but a US company still controls everything underneath (https://info.thenewstack.io/e3t/Ctc/L2+113/d5qLSh04/VVwYb_7Q-JYxW4C02hQ3wB7ynW39GxQ75LVj7YN5q1hkn3prCCW7Y8-PT6lZ3pRW2VLm5n3gd-MNW6LxGpw5_lmTPW43QXpL4yRXB7W8-JTCQ7Hpbq2W4W7tbq6xJDQ-W5LlPnh72XSmcW6PWwZc3V7xPzN5WPMnB6kSsQW8fdWn94xmMbgVrM4R24ZBw_jW6qfNgy5h7gNxW1NHxWM7Mj7q9W4JFG3P68D8pwN42R9h2mdMBCW30-8gm5nwnLkW5PKRZ36dzC1LW7kBfZk5JLVQNVCBTzK8p9lR1W2g301B4lvPt5W4T_g7T7b04K5W46QQqv6ZGFgWW5Y4Y6k8XfS_sW5ygZBq34sTv2W5JHZz_89M5LlW3fRpDX71KWCyW45D_fX6dCpf3f5B3ypK04 )
Hugging Face data shows Chinese AI models now lead in downloads and adoption, surpassing US open source models, while Nvidia maintains infrastructure dominance.
Most of the AI spotlight shines on the biggest models from the biggest labs — Claude from Anthropic, GPT from OpenAI, and Gemini from Google. These systems set the pace at the...
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Cursor's Composer 2 beats Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks at a fraction of the price (https://info.thenewstack.io/e3t/Ctc/L2+113/d5qLSh04/VVwYb_7Q-JYxW4C02hQ3wB7ynW39GxQ75LVj7YN5q1hkn3prCCW7Y8-PT6lZ3nWW3Dllmt2jDdBPW4C0Xw18qV80LW6wShCy4fGMMSN2fMN61rzX1wW7sSWYh5tnrk2W2HXd_76g_4V9VJ7QX53vcpB5W6jPxWr3DBq4VW4Rw6602HZY7cW1hy82W9lHxbXW8qvbjl8VGb5KW1MHDhc6-0yV_W5L_bK21DbJqwW3pNYbX2tjVskW748Hwf7VFwt6W8kck2q2nZtq6W27ZSwb8rV850W5ZQ0q65sDM3wW3fZzFH6m2Rc4N4X1yzyZWNjrW1LRn212CK_gVW93Kv-V8c1PWKW6PVN2Y3lgVbSW7KHDVt4np1k8W70kyN82-rWFSW14vh5_22N6Jjf12pSJK04 )
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