// Hacker Noon · 12 April 2026

China Gave Its AI Away

China's 15th Five-Year Plan reveals a deliberate bet on small, open, and efficient AI models over the West's expensive proprietary giants. DeepSeek trained a GPT-4 rival for $6 million and released it free. Alibaba's Qwen hit 700 million downloads. Chinese models now account for nearly 30 percent of...

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