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Open Model Ecosystem Shifts from Chinese Dominance to Global Diversity with 550B NVIDIA, 218B Cohere Releases
The open model ecosystem is diversifying beyond its previous Chinese dominance, with companies like NVIDIA, Cohere, Poolside, and Zyphra releasing models under permissive licenses. NVIDIA's 550B parameter Nemotron-3-Ultra uses LatentMoE architecture and switches to the OpenMDW license, while Cohere released Command A+ as a 218B-A25B MoE under Apache 2.0.
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