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U.S. tech firms increasingly use Chinese open-source AI models

Demand is rising for Chinese open-source AI models that are relatively cheaper while offering performance close to OpenAI and Anthropic, with interest spreading to major U.S. tech firms. Coinbase is testing Chinese open-weight models as defaults in its LLM gateway. Databricks’ Yu Chen Jin called GLM-5.2 an “open-source Claude moment.” Axios reported Microsoft is reviewing DeepSeek V4 fine-tuned and other open-source models as alternatives.

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Unconventional AI unveils new AI architecture aiming to cut inference power use 1,000-fold

Unconventional AI, founded by former Databricks AI head Nabeen Rao (나빈 라오), unveiled a new oscillator-based computing architecture it says could sharply reduce power use for AI inference. The company said it aims to cut energy consumption to as low as one-thousandth of existing AI systems over the long term. It also released its first AI model, the image generation system Un-0, and a research paper, with results shown so far in software simulation rather than a physical chip.

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SK Shieldus takes second in Korean track at Databricks AI hackathon with living safety service

SK Shieldus said on Wednesday its data engineering team won second place in the Korean-language track at Databricks\' 2026 Data and AI-based intelligent application development hackathon. The APAC competition drew more than 100 teams from South Korea, Australia, India, Japan and Singapore, and ran Korean, English and Japanese tracks. The team presented an AI-based app, Todak Todak, that analyzes caregivers’ voice descriptions and provides tailored guidance while linking real-time hospital information.