112: Today in AI: China Sweeps Open Source Rankings, DeepSeek & Qwen Beat Meta's Llama

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First aired: 16 December 2025

Summary: China's absolutely dominated the open-source AI rankings this year, and it's not even close. A new tier list from Interconnects puts DeepSeek at the top, followed by Qwen and Kimi - all Chinese labs. Meta's Llama models? They've been relegated to an "honourable mention" at the bottom, which is pretty embarrassing considering Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions poaching engineers and then hasn't released anything in months. The whole top tier is Chinese models, and they're not just good, they're genuinely brilliant, and they're giving them away completely open-source. You can fine-tune them, deploy them on your own servers, do whatever you want with them.

The irony? While American labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are locking everything down behind paywalls and API subscriptions, China's playing the long game. Their models are being used in Y Combinator startups, they're spreading across the developing world, and they're getting better precisely because they're open. It's a completely different business model and development paradigm, and right now, it's winning. Whether it's strategic genius or just a different approach to software development, China's figured out that giving away world-class AI models might be more valuable than charging for them.

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00:00 China Dominates Open Source AI: 2025 Tier List Revealed

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04:29 Open Source AI Safety Debate: Should Models Be Free?

06:05 Closed vs Open Source: Which AI Models Are Actually Best?

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43:44 Show Wrap-Up

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