An American lab is about to give away a China-class open model.
Axios reported on Sunday that the startup Reflection will soon release its first open-weight model. The model should trail the top American systems but match China's strongest free ones. Reflection declined to comment, and Axios says more Western open models follow this month.
Why it mattersAlmost every company that wants to own its own AI now starts from a Chinese model. An American option changes who sees your data when you build on free weights.
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