Chinese labs unleash trillion‑parameter open models, US hardware firms surge
In 2026 Chinese labs repeatedly launched open models between 754 B and 2.78 T parameters, outpacing every U.S. release except NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3 Ultra. Meanwhile AMD and NVIDIA each added over 200 new open‑model repos, using them as hardware demos. The HF hub now hosts 2.96 M models, but 85 % see under 200 downloads.