Hugging Face — a key repository that offers AI free for download — reports that 41% of all free AI models are now from Chinese AI labs, a widespread adoption that concerns U.S. leaders
Observes Clement Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face: “They’re clearly dominating on open models right now — and I wouldn’t be surprised if they start dominating at the frontier either by the end of this year or next year at the rate of progress.”
That rapid adoption of Chinese-generated AI concerns the Trump Administration, which is dead-set on ensuring American AI remains the number one choice for AI in the world.
In other news and analysis on AI writing:
*Alternative Prompting: Sometimes, Simply ‘Talking At’ ChatGPT Works Best: Writer Eric Hal Schwartz has discovered that simply talking to ChatGPT for several minutes using ChatGPT Voice sometimes beats trying to prompt the AI with a highly edited written prompt.
Observes Schwartz: “The biggest lesson for me was that my carefully written prompts may have been removing useful information all along. When I edit myself before asking ChatGPT something, I naturally cut out the contradictions or any unfinished thoughts.
“Those are often exactly the details that explain what I really want.”
*AI-Generated Books Wreaking Havoc on Publishing Industry: Scores of major book deals – sometimes in the multimillions – are being killed after it’s discovered that AI was used to write at least some of the prose.
Observes writer Anna Silman: “The spectacular implosions of big book deals over suspected AI use—and fears about who might be next—are forcing a reckoning over the nature of authorship, the relationship between writers and publishers and the industry’s long-term survival.
“But nobody can seem to agree who exactly is responsible for solving this problem, or even how much of a problem it actually is.”
*These Days, U.S. Laws Are Often Written By AI: Writer Victor Tangermann reports that Congressional staffers are increasingly leaning on AI to write laws that are often ultimately signed by President Donald Trump.
Observes Tangermann: “Employees in both the House and the Senate are making liberal use of the tools, a terrifying new reality that could result in nonsensical language and hallucinations to slip into anything from congressional speeches to emails to laws themselves.”
*ChatGPT Rolls-Out ‘Premium Business Tier’ for Heavy Users at $125/Month: Business users who spend a great deal of time working with ChatGPT may want to check-out ChatGPT’s new Premium Business tier, which eliminates the five-hour usage limit currently in place for ChatGPT Plus users.
Observes writer Vlad Schepkov: “OpenAI said the new tier responds to requests from ChatGPT Business customers seeking expanded capacity for tasks including inventory management, marketing campaign development, business performance analysis, customer experience improvements, and product development.”
*New AI Agent Workspace Designed for Marketing Writers: Ahrefs has launched a new AI agent-powered workspace for writers –- dubbed Letaido — designed to handle research, reporting and monitoring for busy marketing departments.
Observes writer Duncan Riley: “Teams can hand agents multi-step jobs, schedule recurring workflows, build dashboards and reports and set up continuous monitoring of their own sites and their competitors.
“A visual interface shows outputs as agents produce them, so more than one person can review and refine the same piece of work.”
*U.S. AI Titans Release Open Source AI Models to Compete with China: Stock market darling Nvidia and Facebook parent Meta have both released new AI models that any company or organization can run for free on their own computers.
Observes writer Jonathan Vanian: “Both companies still have to prove there’s an audience for their offerings in a market featuring popular models from Chinese AI labs like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek, as well as Alibaba’s Qwen.”
Meta’s free AI model is dubbed ‘Muse Glimmer.’ Nvidia’s alternative is Nemotron 3.5 Lightning.
*Key Player in Chinese AI – DeepSeek – Jacks-Up Prices: One of the most prominent players in Chinese AI has increased prices by 50% for businesses looking to work with that AI be linking to the provider’s AI computer network.
Specifically, that price hike is limited to use of DeepSeek’s most advanced AI models – DeepSeek V4-Pro and DeepSeek V4-Flash.
Also part of the pricing change will be peak pricing and off-peak pricing.
*Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI Rolls-Out Formidable Grok 4.6: Determined to remain a serious contender in U.S. bleeding edge or ‘frontier AI,’ Elon Musk is out with an upgrade to his Grok AI model.
Benchmark tests of the AI confirm that Grok 4.6 beats a top Chinese AI model – Kimi K3 – and ties OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol in performance, according to writer Carl Franzen.
Adds Franzen: “SpaceXAI describes Grok 4.6 as being built specifically to stay on task across longer sequences of work, including researching unfamiliar topics, analyzing information, navigating code-bases and converting product ideas into working applications.”
*New AI Auto-Generates Highly Personalized Business Emails: Seamless.AI is out with an auto-email generator that draws on a number of company databases to write highly personalized emails.
Key features of the app include the ability to:
–Research hard-to-find contact data
–Automatically reveal the most important information to break into any company
–Write personalized emails, calls, and social messages to millions of records
–Identify likely business challenges based on company size, industry, and other attributes
–Score contacts and companies against an ideal customer profile
–Categorize accounts by market segment, vertical, use case, or internal criteria
–Execute contact and company research across thousands of records at once
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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.