Foreign Policy points out that China's open-source AI models are being spontaneously adopted by Global South developers due to low cost, easy deployment, and strong support for non-Latin scripts, potentially forming a structural dependency.
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Foreign Policy Reports Chinese Open-Source AI Models Rapidly Expanding in Global South
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