{"id":40831,"date":"2025-08-04T12:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/?p=40831"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:25:15","slug":"open-source-ai-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yardi.com\/blog\/open-source-ai-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"China vs. America in open source, mind-blowing AI agents & more"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is a new arms race brewing. A cold war not fought with atomic weapons, but something potentially more powerful: AI. While the U.S. is leading the pack for closed models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, in the world of open source models, China is the clear leader with models like Kimi K2<\/a> and Qwen 3<\/a>. Can the U.S. fight back?<\/p>\n

On a more positive note, my mind was blown not once, but twice last week! OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT agent<\/a> and Replit\u2019s AI coding platform<\/a> are two incredible examples of how Agentic AI can revolutionize the way people work and live.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s not enough to convince you that real change is coming, how about this: Both OpenAI and Google have AI models that were able to win Gold at the International Math Olympiad<\/a>, one of the most challenging math competitions in the world.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s dig in!<\/p>\n

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What happened<\/h3>\n

There were two major releases of open source AI models recently. Moonshot<\/a> released Kimi K2<\/a> (try it here<\/a>) and Alibaba Cloud<\/a> released a major update to Qwen 3<\/a> (specifically Qwen3-235B-Thinking-2507 \u2013 try it here<\/a>). Both of these models are state of the art for open source models and can even compete with the best closed source models on many benchmarks. Here\u2019s a chart of Kimi K2\u2019s performance vs other leading LLMs:<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s a chart of Qwen 3\u2019s performance vs other leading LLMs:<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s incredible here is not just the power of these models, but the cost. Look at how Kimi K2 compares with other models on a price\/token graph (top left of the chart means that the model is smart and cheap):<\/p>\n

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It is important to note that both Moonshot and Alibaba are Chinese companies. While the U.S. does have a few open source LLMs, most notably Llama<\/a> from Meta, Gemma<\/a> from Google, and Nemotron<\/a> from Nvidia, none of them are near the top of the leaderboards. Why is that?<\/p>\n

Why it matters<\/h3>\n

Open source LLMs are critical for several reasons:<\/p>\n