The best available open weight LLMs now come from China

The article discusses the rise of open-weight models from Chinese AI labs, specifically highlighting Qwen, Moonshot, and Z.ai. The author compares these models favorably to Mistral, Gemma, and Llama. It provides a list of recently released models from these labs, including details on their parameter sizes and licensing. The author also speculates on the potential reasons for delays in OpenAI's open-weight model releases, suggesting a desire to surpass the capabilities of these Chinese models.