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Nvidia-backed Reflection AI challenges Chinese dominance in open-weight models

October 6

An Nvidia-backed US start-up has unveiled an open-weight model to challenge China’s dominance in freely available artificial intelligence, releasing a system that early third-party testing suggests…

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