China is advancing the open-weight AI model industry in a way the US is not

Systems trained on data to learn patterns and make predictions or generate outputs, such as text, images, or decisions, by approximating relationships between inputs and outputs without being explicitly programmed for each task.

Coverage of China's AI models, chip access, and competition with US labs.

Meta's open-weight AI model released on October 15, 2026: an 816-billion-parameter multimodal model with a 1 million token context window, which Meta calls the most capable US open-weight model to date.