China surpasses the United States in the global market for open-source artificial intelligence (AI) models. According to a November 26 Financial Times report, a study by MIT and open-source AI startup Hugging Face found that the share of downloads of open-source AI models developed by Chinese teams rose to 17% over the past year, surpassing their American counterparts for the first time and gaining a key lead in the global application of AI technology. Amid the AI boom sweeping the global tech industry, US tech giants such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic tend to adopt a ” closed ” strategy, maintaining complete