Chinese open-weight models become a default pick for enterprises going open

Low-cost open-weight models from Chinese labs, Moonshot AI's Kimi among them, are reportedly leading enterprise open-source AI spending.

South China Morning Post's tech desk reports that cheap open-weight models from Chinese labs are becoming the default for enterprises that choose open AI systems, with Moonshot AI's Kimi leading the group.

For knowledge access, the point is price. When capable models can be downloaded and run at low cost, more companies, schools and small developers can use advanced AI without paying premium rates to closed providers. That cost pressure also spreads to the products built on top of these models, which touches goods and services more broadly.

Our source was unreachable when we wrote this, so we have only the headline-level summary. We can't give spending figures, the share of the market, or how the ranking was measured, and we haven't checked the claim. Please read the SCMP report itself for the detail.

Source: SCMP Tech