"Chinese open-weight models passed the American share of global downloads for the first time in 2025" and their share of developer usage "climbed from under 15 percent to more than half within a year, with businesses in the Global South the heaviest users."
Spain's top reasoning model is built on Chinese GLM-5.2. Japan's Rakuten AI uses DeepSeek. Saudi Arabia commissioned its Arabic model from MiniMax.
Bayman11771 (npub1k4r…4ftd) of Bitcoin Policy Institute writes, "The United States can win this competition, but not just by publishing the most advanced models and declaring victory. It must make American technology the preferred foundation for other countries' AI systems."
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/how-america-wins-the-ai-race-with-open-source
