China's Open-Weight AI Models Gain Global Users

Developers including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI make their model weights freely available for download, allowing other companies to run the models on their own servers and modify them independently.

This strategy has accelerated global adoption over the past two years, but has also exposed developers to intense competition from rival platforms.

Companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic in the US keep their models closed and maintain tight control over access and pricing.