Chinese AI models raise 'sleeper agent' fears after report finds more vulnerable code for US users

Booz Allen report warns Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Qwen may produce more vulnerable code for U.S. government users, ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why

Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — ...
VentureBeat

Cursor's Composer 2 was secretly built on a Chinese AI model — and it exposes a deeper problem with Western open-source AI

The $29.3 billion AI coding tool just got caught with its provenance showing. When Cursor launched Composer 2 last week — calling it "frontier-level coding intelligence" — it presented the model as ...
TechCrunch

Chinese AI company MiniMax releases new models it claims are competitive with the industry’s best

Chinese firms continue to release AI models that rival the capabilities of systems developed by OpenAI and other U.S.-based AI companies. MiniMax claims that MiniMax-Text-01, which is 456 billion ...
techtimes

China’s AI Ambitions Coming to Life—Open Source Models Now Keeping Up With US Counterparts

China is catching up rapidly in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and other AI-related areas, overtaking the United States. According to industry analysts, Chinese AI models are more than just ...
TechRepublic

The Chinese AI Surge: One Model Just Matched (or Beat) Claude and GPT in Safety Tests

A new red-team analysis reveals how leading Chinese open-source AI models stack up on safety, performance, and jailbreak resistance. As open-source generative AI models continue to proliferate, it’s ...
CNBC

China wants to dominate in AI — and some of its models are already beating their U.S. rivals

Chinese AI models are already hugely popular and are keeping pace with — and even surpassing — some U.S. rivals, industry experts told CNBC. Many Chinese firms are purusing open source, or open weight ...
techtimes

Chinese AI Models Lead OpenRouter Traffic: Coding Gains Come With China Data Risk

Three days after OpenRouter raised a $113 million Series B and disclosed that weekly traffic on its platform had reached 25 trillion tokens — five times higher than six months earlier — the most ...
Dark Reading

Open-Weight Chinese AI Models Drive Privacy Innovation in LLMs

As cloud-served large language models (LLMs) flood the market, data privacy continues to be a big problem for end users because they have no control over their data once they've fed it into the models ...
CNBC

One year after DeepSeek, Chinese AI firms from Alibaba to Moonshot race to release new models

Chinese tech firms are releasing AI models at a faster pace as competition with U.S. rivals tightens. Open-source and low-cost strategies are driving the adoption of Chinese AI in emerging markets.
The Economist

Chinese AI models are popular. But can they make money?

In the year since DeepSeek, a little-known artificial-intelligence lab from China, shocked the world with a whizzy new model, the country’s clout in AI has only grown. It is now the undisputed global ...