Rednote launches public AI model to rival Alibaba and DeepSeek
Rednote is accelerating its AI efforts with a new open-source language model and an AI-powered search tool called Diandian.
By joining the growing number of firms from China open-sourcing AI models—such as Alibaba and DeepSeek—Rednote aims to foster a developer community, expand global influence, and showcase its technical progress amid US-led restrictions on advanced technology exports.
Open-sourcing also enables collaboration and experimentation in contrast to proprietary models kept under wraps by some US companies.
Although dots.llm1 performs slightly behind cutting-edge models like DeepSeek-V3, its coding capabilities rival Alibaba’s Qwen 2.5 series. The launch follows Rednote’s recent AI-powered search app, Diandian, which helps users explore Xiaohongshu’s ecosystem more intuitively.
The company began investing in large language models shortly after ChatGPT’s debut and has accelerated its AI strategy in recent months.
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