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ModelScope
Alibaba's platform for sharing open AI models, roughly China's answer to Hugging Face.
ModelScope is where Chinese labs put their open models for anyone to download. It works much like Hugging Face: each model gets a page with the files, a description of how it was trained, the licence terms, and usually some code showing how to run it.
It exists partly for practical reasons, since downloading many gigabytes from a Western server is slow inside China, and partly for strategic ones, since a country building its own open model ecosystem prefers to host it at home. Most big Chinese releases now appear on both platforms at once, so you rarely have to choose.
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