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Monday, 21 September 2026

The current balance of power in open models

Interconnects 1 month ago 39 ● 2 sources

Open-weight AI models from Chinese companies have taken the lead over American open-weight models across downloads and public benchmarks, while influencing adoption in research and commercial use. Hugging Face downloads show China’s lead growing to about 1.6B additional downloads (about 3.2B total) after the ATOM Project began tracking in August 2025. The ecosystem responds with more US-based investment focused on open models and more cross-border enterprise agreements, since restricting access would mainly disadvantage American businesses.

Nvidia’s free AI model could push the UAE closer to the U.S.

Rest of World 1 month ago 32

Nvidia’s planned free AI model is set to expand the UAE’s reliance on U.S.-aligned software on top of Nvidia chips. The model is due by the end of the year for anyone to download for free. The UAE’s approach to AI sovereignty is likely to shift from avoiding imported models toward using Nvidia’s open weights layer alongside or instead of its own Falcon-only strategy.

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