Global Competition

DeepSeek-V4, Alibaba Qwen-3 & the 'Great Disruption' of 2026: Why Open-Weights are Winning the Global AI War

The spring of 2026 has brought the 'Great Disruption' from APAC. DeepSeek-V4 and Alibaba Qwen-3 have shattered the belief that the West owns the intelligence frontier. This 3,000-word analysis explores the shift from closed-source to open-weights and why $0.01 per million tokens is the new reality.