U.S. Urgently Launches 'ATOM Program' in Response to China's Rise in Open Source AI

According to the Washington Post, in the face of China's rapid development in the field of open source artificial intelligence (AI), especially Alibaba's "Tongyiqianqian" (Qwen) series of large models of the global influence continues to expand, the United States is urgently promoting a new strategy called the "ATOM program The U.S. is urgently promoting a new strategy called the "ATOM program," which aims to rebuild its leadership position in open-source AI. The report cited data from Hugging Face, a world-renowned AI community, which pointed out that developers are increasingly preferring to use Alibaba's "Thousand Questions" model for the fundamental reason that it is currently the most powerful free model. This "Thousand Questions effect" is reshaping the tool choices of AI developers around the world, and has been a direct trigger for alarm among the U.S. tech community and policymakers. According to Artificial Analysis, an AI benchmarking company, five of the world's top 15 most powerful AI models were developed by Chinese companies, all of them open source. In contrast, the United States did not release any similar results in July of this year. The initiative, which officially launched on Monday, has already garnered support from leading tech investor Bill Gurley, Clément de Laon, CEO of open-source platform Hugging Face, Stanford professor Chris Manning, Nvidia's director of applied research Oleksiy Kuchaev, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon, and SemiAnalysis founder and CEO Dylan Patel, among other researchers. CEO Dylan Patel, and more than a dozen other industry leaders have cosigned their support.