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Chinese firms continue to release AI models that rival the capabilities of systems developed by OpenAI and other U.S.-based ...

OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model sometimes switches to Chinese and other languages as it reasons through problems, and AI ...

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up MiniMax has launched a new series of open-source models, intensifying the competition among mainland technology firms to deliver cost-effective AI ...

Chinese artificial ... have the resources to push their AI products to millions of users for free. Start-ups, meanwhile, must balance ambitious expansion with monetisation efforts to sustain ...

The AI is solving a user-entered prompt and while presenting the logical steps the language shifts from English to Chinese. This occurs for a line or two and then reverts back to English.

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