Yearender: Tuning in to Beijing Time

NAMPA / Xinhua

2025-12-23

BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- From the server racks of a São Paulo university to the trading desks of Dubai, the hum of global innovation has changed its tune by late 2025. When engineers across the world open the "hood" of their newest artificial intelligence (AI) applications, they increasingly find an engine built on open code from Chinese cities of Hangzhou and Beijing. This quiet ubiquity is the new reality: Chinese open-source models n......

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