Morning Edition · Tuesday, July 14, 2026Published at 1:33 AM EDT · New York
The four-model series carries 1.9 billion non-embedding parameters and targets a size that runs on consumer hardware, extending China's downloadable-weight stack.

The video platform Bilibili published a technical report for Index-1.9B, a series of open small language models with 1.9 billion non-embedding parameters pre-trained on 2.8 trillion tokens of predominantly Chinese and English text. The seri…
Track frontier labs, chips, export controls, model releases, regulation, and AI infrastructure.
The Global Intelligence Brief stays free.
Part of a tracked trend
Chinese Open-Weight Models Emerge as the Non-US AI Stack
As Washington restricts foreign access to US frontier models, governments and enterprises cut off from American AI increasingly standardize on downloadable Chinese open-weight models, splitting the world into competing AI supply blocs rather than a single frontier.
Start a discussion in Townsquare.
More from this edition
Comments
0No comments yet.