{"id":344947,"date":"2025-12-13T08:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344947\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T08:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T08:09:08","slug":"role-reversal-meta-adopts-qwen-as-chinese-ai-becomes-industry-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344947\/","title":{"rendered":"Role reversal: Meta adopts Qwen as Chinese AI becomes industry foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">When US tech giant Meta Platforms released its flagship Llama family of artificial intelligence models in February 2023, they were open-sourced, a move that singled it out among global AI model developers at the time.<\/p>\n<p>That September, one of the many derivatives of Llama was announced: Alibaba Cloud\u2019s <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/qwen?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Qwen.<\/a> The first generation of Qwen adopted Llama\u2019s training process and cited Meta&#8217;s seminal research findings in its accompanying technical report.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Out of deference, the Chinese researchers even called Llama \u201cthe top open-source large language model\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, the tables have seemingly turned. According to a Bloomberg report on Wednesday, it was now <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3336073\/ai-race-meta-reported-use-alibabas-qwen-avocado-model-likely-win-china?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meta that is reportedly taking its cues from Alibaba,<\/a> with unnamed sources claiming that the Facebook owner was now using Qwen to help train a new model code-named Avocado.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The report did not specify which Alibaba Qwen model was being used. Alibaba owns the Post.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meta released its flagship Llama family of AI models in February 2023. Photo: Shutterstock Images\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8ccfcf12-5204-467c-adb5-cc9becc80981_83ce3f4e.jpg\" title=\"Meta released its flagship Llama family of AI models in February 2023. Photo: Shutterstock Images\"\/>Meta released its flagship Llama family of AI models in February 2023. Photo: Shutterstock Images<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The development caps a remarkable reversal in fortunes for the two leading US and Chinese open-source flagbearers. Up until very recently, Llama was the default model of choice for developers building on open-source AI software, including in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When US tech giant Meta Platforms released its flagship Llama family of artificial intelligence models in February 2023,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[190866,256,45793,75900,190867,254,255,64,63,44890,1071,512,28300,2456,111415,37320,168759,190869,190868,25654,30636,1333,32979,5044,75898,11069,105,2489],"class_list":{"0":"post-344947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-01-ai","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-alibaba","11":"tag-alibaba-cloud","12":"tag-artificial-analysis","13":"tag-artificial-intelligence","14":"tag-artificialintelligence","15":"tag-au","16":"tag-australia","17":"tag-avocado","18":"tag-bloomberg","19":"tag-china","20":"tag-deepseek","21":"tag-facebook","22":"tag-george-washington-university","23":"tag-google-deepmind","24":"tag-hugging-face","25":"tag-jeffrey-ding","26":"tag-lee-kai-fu","27":"tag-llama","28":"tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","29":"tag-meta","30":"tag-meta-platforms","31":"tag-openai","32":"tag-qwen","33":"tag-taiwan","34":"tag-technology","35":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}