China's Rednote launches an open-source AI model
The Chinese social media platform RedNote, also known in the country as Xiaohongshu, launched its first open-source large language model (LLM) last Friday. The new model, named “dots.llm1”, contains a total of 142 billion parameters, but only 14 billion are supposedly activated for each response.
According to the Asian news outlet South China Morning Post, this architecture could help the LLM balance performance with cost-effectiveness to compete with rivals like OpenAI's ChatGPT, while reducing expenses in both training and inference.
RedNote's internal Human Intelligence Lab developed the LLM, or “hi lab”, which evolved from the company’s previous artificial intelligence team. RedNote stated that its model surpasses other open-source systems in understanding the Chinese language, outperforming Alibaba's Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct and DeepSeek-V3.
