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Aug 4, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

China’s Open‑Source LLMs Surge: Alibaba’s Max‑Class Weights & DeepSeek V4‑Flash Challenge U.S. Giants

Chinese AI firms are reshaping the global market as Alibaba openly releases its flagship 2.4‑trillion‑parameter Qwen 3.8‑Max model weights and DeepSeek launches the cost‑effective V4‑Flash, both delivering performance comparable to OpenAI and Anthropic models while dramatically lowering deployment and inference expenses.