China’s trillion-parameter AI race: how developers strive to narrow gap with US rivals (opens in new tab)

Chinese artificial intelligence developers are accelerating their push into massive foundation models with more than a trillion parameters, just as Washington moves to block foreign access to leading US software through unprecedented export controls. Parameters serve as a primary measure of an AI’s capabilities. Chinese companies have been looking to narrow the gap with leading US rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, which continue to aggressively expand the size of their top models. The depth o...