{"id":346335,"date":"2025-12-13T12:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346335\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:22:13","slug":"role-reversal-meta-adopts-qwen-as-chinese-ai-becomes-industry-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346335\/","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\/us\/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":346336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[172987,182,5310,34570,90147,181,507,143265,7904,144,18732,10414,81666,74708,90149,172989,172988,37808,36688,1282,1683,1283,18735,3998,74,25],"class_list":["post-346335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-01-ai","tag-ai","tag-alibaba","tag-alibaba-cloud","tag-artificial-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-avocado","tag-bloomberg","tag-china","tag-deepseek","tag-facebook","tag-george-washington-university","tag-google-deepmind","tag-hugging-face","tag-jeffrey-ding","tag-lee-kai-fu","tag-llama","tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","tag-meta","tag-meta-platforms","tag-openai","tag-qwen","tag-taiwan","tag-technology","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}