The Real AI Race Is Open vs. Closed. AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #89
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| WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2026 · VOL. 1, NO. 89 · 20 STORIES |
| Lead · AI Models |
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The Real AI Race Is No Longer U.S. vs. China. It Is Open vs. Closed.
Artificial Analysis puts DeepSeek's V4 Flash one Intelligence Index point behind GPT-5.6 Luna, and even after OpenAI cut prices by 80 percent, V4 Flash still costs 60 percent less per task on hardware cheap enough to run without a hyperscaler. Fortune's argument is that U.S. export controls caused this: denied top-tier GPUs, Chinese labs optimized architecture instead of scale and released the weights. What is left of the case against open models, the piece argues, is an anti-competitive interest in charging a premium for intelligence. |
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