Open models

Week 43 · 19-25 Oct

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March 2026

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    Open models as a new frontier for soft power in the US-China AI competition

    The US "Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan" (2025) treats open models as having "geostrategic value"; China's "Global AI Governance Action Plan" frames open source as global sharing aimed at the Global South.

    nearly 1,000%growth in DeepSeek model downloads on model-sharing platforms since R1's release in January 2025 (US CAISI)