Tech Asia: Why open-weight AI is the new frontier in the US-China tech race
Nvidia, Meta release open models to challenge Chinese offerings
PALO ALTO, California/HONG KONG -- China's DeepSeek is once again causing a stir in American tech and policy circles, this time with the release last week of V4 Pro, a so-called open weight AI model that is free for anyone to download. The move has Washington and Silicon Valley debating more intensely than ever whether -- and how -- the U.S. should respond to the rise of such Chinese AI technology.
While the Trump administration has floated a ban on Chinese open-weight AI models, American tech companies, big and small, are protesting the restriction(öffnet im neuen Fenster) of such models, regardless of their origin.