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How much of Silicon Valley is built on Chinese AI?

Beijing’s low-cost and open-source push is undoubtedly attracting developers, the backbone of AI innovation.

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By last month, Qwen had had 385.3 million cumulative downloads compared to Llama’s 346.2 million.

By October, Alibaba's Qwen had 385.3 million cumulative downloads, compared with Meta-owned Llama’s 346.2 million.

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Catherine Thorbecke

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Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang recently declared to The Financial Times that:

“China is going to win the AI race.”

He later softened his stance, saying the US’ rival was merely “nanoseconds behind”, and that it is vital America comes out on top “by racing ahead and winning developers worldwide”.

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