Chinese open-source AI models occupy top spots among global developers: ranking

Jul 21, 2025

China is home to the world’s top artificial intelligence (AI) models that are open-sourced, according to an American benchmarking platform created by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley. Kimi K2, MiniMax M1, Qwen 3 and a variant of DeepSeek R1 were ranked as the world’s top open-sourced AI models, beating out offerings like Google’s Gemma 3-72B and Meta’s Llama 4-Maverick, LMArena said in a report on Friday. The winners were determined by “comparing them side by side and...

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