Hugging Face June global download statistics show Chinese open LLMs account for 66% of all new foundation model weight pulls. MiniMax published its new 8B lightweight multimodal open model, optimized for edge servers deployed within the United States, with inference cost reduced by 45% compared to previous versions. All weights allow commercial privatization without mandatory data backhaul to China.
Sources: Hugging Face official monthly open model report, RadarAI Global Open LLM Tracker,ThreeRouter Report
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