DeepSeek, a startup from China, has rolled out a new model. It is called V3.1. Analysts say it signals a shift in the global contest over advanced artificial intelligence. The release comes in open-source form, a choice that separates it from U.S. rivals.
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When President Trump released the U.S. AI Action Plan last week, many were surprised to see “encourage open-source and open-weight AI,” as one of the administration’s top priorities. The White House has elevated what was once a highly technical topic into an urgent national concern — and a key strategy to winning the AI race against China.
Chinese e-commerce and web giant Alibaba’s Qwen team has officially launched a new series of open source AI large language multimodal models known as Qwen3 that appear to be among the state-of-the-art for open models, and approach performance of proprietary models from the likes of OpenAI and Google.