“China bad” aside. Chinese companies are entering a space dominated by US companies with endless money, and this is one way they can gain a foothold. Also in China a working solution is preferred over intellectual property. An open model allows more people and companies to produce actual products and systems. There is no emphasis on value for shareholders or stock prices.
Airbnb boss Brian Chesky told Bloomberg in October his company relied “a lot” on Alibaba’s Qwen to power its AI customer service agent.
He gave three simple reasons - it’s “very good”, “fast” and “cheap”.
Going into 2025, the consensus was despite billions of dollars being spent by US tech firms, Chinese companies were threatening to pull ahead.
“That’s not the story anymore,” Boudier said. “Now, the best model is an open-source model.”
A report published last month by Stanford University found Chinese AI models “seem to have caught up or even pulled ahead” of their global counterparts - both in terms of what they’re capable of, and how many people are using them.
Interesting stuff. I hope Sam Altman loses everything.
I have stuck with LinuxMint since 2018 or so. None of the surprises I previously had with Ubuntu despite it being Ubuntu based.
What is your hardware setup and are you using non-free drivers?
How can I find out if it supports ext4? if it does I might install it tonight. I have been waiting for Hurd for over a decade.
The area of Neom is 26,500 km² larger than Slovenia and it includes everything including mountains where it drops below 0 every winter.
Yes. There are distros such as LinuxMint Cinnamon Edition that allow doing everything from the GUI.
The issue is when searching for answers most will provide a solution using the terminal, even when it is doable using the GUI.