🇨🇳 China is absolutely dominating the open-source world.

Many top Silicon Valley companies are choosing Alibaba’s Qwen as their shortcut. "Chinese models are also winning over customers as geopolitical and cybersecurity concerns take a backseat to factors like cost, efficiency, and ease of use."

And derivative models (finetuned or otherwise modified models) built on Chinese base foundations now absolutely exceed those built on US and European models.

Alibaba towers over everyone from late 2024 into mid 2025, with around 5000 to 6000 Alibaba based derivatives in its peak month, several times