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KETTLE OpenAI's invasion of Hugging Face keeps getting worse somehow, Chinese open-weight models are nigh on to reaching parity with their closed-off American cousins, and AI crawlers are getting their own LLM-poisoning ad s.
Key facts
- It's cheaper than the cheapest model that OpenAI has for GPT 5.6, and it scores within a point of the OpenAI model in Artificial Analysis' intelligence leaderboard
- KETTLE OpenAI's invasion of Hugging Face keeps getting worse somehow, Chinese open-weight models are nigh on to reaching parity with their closed-off American cousins, and AI crawlers are getting
- With me to discuss this and more this week is their systems editor Tobias Mann and senior reporter Tom Claiburn
- And now on Monday, Alibaba, another major Chinese model dev, threw their hat in the race with a 2.4 trillion-parameter
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