China’s AI Model Developers Face Watershed Moment, Lenovo Executive Says

Chinese developers of foundational large language models (LLMs) face a watershed moment this year, with those that cannot create products on par with OpenAI’s GPT-4 falling by the wayside, a Lenovo executive told Caixin.

“The number of Chinese companies developing foundational LLMs will nosedive into the single-digits, with those eliminated in the competition likely to opt for developing LLMs for vertical domain applications using open-sourced technologies,” said Song Chunyu, a vice president at Chinese consumer electronics giant Lenovo Group Ltd.