US companies are increasingly adopting open-weight Chinese AI models from Alibaba (BABA), Z.ai and Moonshot AI as cheaper, customisable alternatives to models from OpenAI and Anthropic, WaPo reports
- Cloudflare (NET), Amazon (AMZN) Bedrock, Microsoft (MSFT) Azure, Shopify (SHOP) and Cursor have deployed them
- Security concerns have prompted scrutiny and deterred AT&T (T), however
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