Lizzi C. Lee
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 4
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- Sep 21, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Foreign Policy
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- Aug 3, 2026
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The Real Reason Chinese AI Is Winning the Global South (opens the original)
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Get audio access with any FP subscription. Chinese open-weight models—artificial intelligence systems whose underlying weights are publicly released—are having a moment. Alibaba’s Qwen, for example, boasts 151,448 derivatives on Hugging Face. These are customized adaptations, where programmers fine-tuned the Qwen architecture for their specific needs. That gives Qwen a repository footprint 4.7 times that of Meta’s Llama and almost double that of Google’s Gemma. It also draws 39.6 million monthly
The Real Reason Chinese AI Is Winning the Global South (opens the original)
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Get audio access with any FP subscription. Chinese open-weight models—artificial intelligence systems whose underlying weights are publicly released—are having a moment. Alibaba’s Qwen, for example, boasts 151,448 derivatives on Hugging Face. These are customized adaptations, where programmers fine-tuned the Qwen architecture for their specific needs. That gives Qwen a repository footprint 4.7 times that of Meta’s Llama and almost double that of Google’s Gemma. It also draws 39.6 million monthly
The Real Reason Chinese AI Is Winning the Global South (opens the original)
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Get audio access with any FP subscription. Chinese open-weight models—artificial intelligence systems whose underlying weights are publicly released—are having a moment. Alibaba’s Qwen, for example, boasts 151,448 derivatives on Hugging Face. These are customized adaptations, where programmers fine-tuned the Qwen architecture for their specific needs. That gives Qwen a repository footprint 4.7 times that of Meta’s Llama and almost double that of Google’s Gemma. It also draws 39.6 million monthly
China’s Quiet Bet on Methanol Is Paying Off (opens the original)
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Get audio access with any FP subscription. China is an electric vehicle giant, with companies such as BYD and Geely dominating global markets. But a lesser-known technology is also part of that clean transport story: methanol-powered flexible-fuel vehicles. That story begins with an almost forgotten collaboration, one powered by the U.S. motor giant Ford, that began in 1995. The partnership never produced a commercial breakthrough. Ford eventually abandoned methanol, while China moved on to othe
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