{"slug": "meta-and-nvidia-plant-very-firm-flag-in-open-weight-ai-race-led-by-chinese-labs", "title": "Meta and Nvidia plant 'very firm flag' in open-weight AI race led by Chinese Labs", "summary": "Meta and Nvidia are intensifying efforts to compete in the open-weight AI model market, where Chinese labs currently lead. Meta released Llama 3.1, an open-weight model, while Nvidia introduced Nemotron-4 340B, aiming to strengthen the U.S. position in the global AI race.", "body_md": "# Meta and Nvidia plant 'very firm flag' in open-weight AI race led by Chinese Labs\n\nSource:\n\n[CNBC Technology](https://www.cnbc.com/technology/)With China way ahead in the market for open-\n\n[weight](/glossary/weight)models, Meta and[Nvidia](/glossary/nvidia)are both doing what they can to put the U.S. on the map.Get AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-and-nvidia-plant-very-firm-flag-in-open-weight-ai-race-led-by-chinese-labs", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/meta-and-nvidia-plant-very-firm-flag-in-open-weight-ai-race-200c", "published_at": "2026-08-12 12:00:01+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-12 12:42:33.629131+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Meta", "Nvidia", "Llama 3.1", "Nemotron-4 340B"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-and-nvidia-plant-very-firm-flag-in-open-weight-ai-race-led-by-chinese-labs", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-and-nvidia-plant-very-firm-flag-in-open-weight-ai-race-led-by-chinese-labs.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-and-nvidia-plant-very-firm-flag-in-open-weight-ai-race-led-by-chinese-labs.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-and-nvidia-plant-very-firm-flag-in-open-weight-ai-race-led-by-chinese-labs.jsonld"}}