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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 16 December 2025
Summary: China's absolutely dominated the open-source AI rankings this year, and it's not even close. A new tier list from Interconnects puts DeepSeek at the top, followed by Qwen and Kimi - all Chinese labs. Meta'...
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This video is from the ‘AI with Kyle News and Updates Live Stream’
First aired: 16 December 2025
Summary: China's absolutely dominated the open-source AI rankings this year, and it's not even close. A new tier list from Interconnects puts DeepSeek at the top, followed by Qwen and Kimi - all Chinese labs. Meta's Llama models? They've been relegated to an "honourable mention" at the bottom, which is pretty embarrassing considering Zuckerberg spent hundreds of millions poaching engineers and then hasn't released anything in months. The whole top tier is Chinese models, and they're not just good, they're genuinely brilliant, and they're giving them away completely open-source. You can fine-tune them, deploy them on your own servers, do whatever you want with them.
The irony? While American labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are locking everything down behind paywalls and API subscriptions, China's playing the long game. Their models are being used in Y Combinator startups, they're spreading across the developing world, and they're getting better precisely because they're open. It's a completely different business model and development paradigm, and right now, it's winning. Whether it's strategic genius or just a different approach to software development, China's figured out that giving away world-class AI models might be more valuable than charging for them.
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00:00 China Dominates Open Source AI: 2025 Tier List Revealed
03:06 AI Predictions for 2026: Scaling, Safety & Meta's Exit
04:29 Open Source AI Safety Debate: Should Models Be Free?
06:05 Closed vs Open Source: Which AI Models Are Actually Best?
08:42 How to Run AI Locally on Your Phone or Computer
09:48 Q&A: ChatGPT App Experience vs API Models
12:21 Google AI Summaries Are Killing Recipe Writers
16:52 How AI Overviews Destroy Publisher Revenue
19:10 Surviving the AI Age: Why Being Human Matters Most
21:44 Q&A Break
21:54 TIME Person of the Year: AI Architects Controversy
23:55 AI Killed My Job: Real Copywriters Share Their Stories
26:08 The Entry-Level Job Crisis: AI Eliminating Career Ladders
27:46 How AI Really Takes Jobs: Task Erosion Explained
30:01 AI Augmentation vs Replacement: What's Actually Happening
32:48 EU AI Act: Why Regulation Can't Keep Up
34:45 Do Politicians Actually Understand AI?
36:38 Albania's AI Cabinet Minister: Genius or Gimmick?
38:48 AGI Timeline: The Three Body Problem Analogy
40:04 Pentagon Forms AI Steering Committee on AGI
40:58 Chinese T-800 Robot: Military AI Gets Real
42:24 iRobot Bankruptcy: Chinese Robotics Takeover
43:44 Show Wrap-Up
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