China about to win AI race?

Financial Times: …constraints have pushed Chinese companies towards a different playbook: pooling compute, optimising efficiency and releasing open-weight models. DeepSeek-V3’s training run, for example, used just 2.6mn GPU-hours — far below the scale of US counterparts. But Alibaba’s Qwen models now rank among the most downloaded open weights globally, and companies such as Zhipu and MiniMax are building competitive multimodal and video models…