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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.