Tatia Bolkvadze

entering into partnerships with Chinese tech and AI firms, adopting their AI models, which are, again, open source.

And these countries are later able to sort of develop their own national models off of Chinese products.

Right.

I think the success of Chinese AI models, which are so low cost, in many cases free, is really exacerbating the really deep fears about the AI bubble that's been forming in the US tech industry for a while.

So beyond pricing concerns about how to make your products more competitive in the global market,

I think a lot of these firms are forced to scale up innovation, pivot to other domains of AI.

We've seen the rise of world models, which have more sort of practical applications.

I think one big advantage of Chinese AI models has been that they reflect

Beijing's overall strategy of utilizing AI with their industrial and economic growth goals.

And that's been hugely appealing to not just developing countries, but also many enterprises.

And I think companies in the West are now trying to make their products also more practically applicable.

Yeah, I think that's true.

And this technology has a lot more avenues of growth for businesses.

It promises to optimize decision making.

It's going to have a lot more benefits within sort of public sector decision making as well.

So real life.

Public applications are better.

The concerns about potential hallucinations are less as well.

And I think world models also promise to address some of the concerns about data availability as well in the future.

So this is, I think, one of the biggest trends to watch in 2026.