[D] Why is most Open Source AI happening outside the USA?

I don't think that's **too** hyperbolic. USA has Meta, and little else, especially compared to what's coming from outside.

And I don't mean this to dunk on USA, I'm truly just shocked.

**China:** Yuan, Qwen, DeepSeek, Yi, XVERSE, Aquila, RWKV, all top-tier LLMs today. A *dozen* great (top tier) [multi-modals](https://mmbench.opencompass.org.cn/leaderboard). The top tier embedding models.

**UK:** Stability

**France:** Mistral

**Finland (?):** Lumi Poro

**UAE:** Falcon

**Russia:** Kandinsky

**USA:** Meta has Llama and some other nice things, Salesforce had some things, …

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