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The ATOM Report: Measuring the Open Language Model Ecosystem

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Geopolitical Shift in AI Dominance The Scale of the Open-Source AI Ecosystem

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Concerns Raised

The U.S. and its allies are losing their leadership position in the critical open-source AI ecosystem.
The widening gap in dominance suggests a sustained and potentially irreversible trend of Chinese leadership in this foundational technology.
Western AI labs, despite producing powerful models, are failing to capture the developer ecosystem as effectively as their Chinese counterparts.

Opportunities Identified

The proliferation of high-quality open models from China increases choice and drives competition, which can accelerate innovation globally.
Western firms can analyze the strategies and models of Chinese developers to identify new techniques and opportunities for collaboration or competition.

Key Themes

Research Findings3

Chinese open language models overtook their U.S.-built counterparts in ecosystem dominance in the summer of 2025.

The gap in ecosystem dominance between Chinese and Western open language models widened after the summer of 2025.

The open language model ecosystem consists of approximately 1,500 mainline models from developers including Alibaba (Qwen), DeepSeek, and Meta (Llama).

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AI Open Source Large Language Models (LLMs)Geopolitics US-China Tech Competition AI Dominance Ecosystem Analysis Alibaba Qwen DeepSeek Meta Llama Hugging Face AI Adoption Metrics Inference Market Share Technology Trends ATOM Report

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The ATOM Report: Measuring the Open Language Model Ecosystem

Continue your research

Concerns Raised

Opportunities Identified

Key Themes

Geopolitical Shift in AI Dominance

The Scale of the Open-Source AI Ecosystem

Measuring Real-World AI Impact

The Rise of Chinese AI Leaders

Research Findings3

Topics