Top 10: DeepSeek, Qwen, and openEuler: The Rise of "Chinese-Style" Open Source

By Mihai Cornel

Top 10: DeepSeek, Qwen, and openEuler: The Rise of "Chinese-Style" Open Source

The Rise of "Chinese-Style" Open Source

 

China's role in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystem has undergone a massive transformation. Over the past decade, the country transitioned from being primarily a consumer of open-source technology to becoming one of the most prolific drivers of global open-source software, platform engagement, and artificial intelligence.

1. Massive Developer Ecosystem & Global Platforms

Chinese individual developers and codebases form a foundational pillar of modern open-source collaboration platforms:

  • GitHub Dominance: Chinese developers make up the second-largest user base on GitHub globally. Multiple Chinese-backed repositories routinely rank in GitHub's top trending lists.

  • Hugging Face Downloads: In the machine learning and open AI space, data from Hugging Face highlights that China has surpassed the United States in monthly and overall model downloads, cementing its place at the center of the open AI ecosystem.

2. The Open-Weights AI Explosion

While many Western tech giants have shifted toward proprietary, closed-source artificial intelligence systems, China has heavily embraced an "open weights" and open-source model strategy.

  • Global Benchmarks: Projects like DeepSeek (including its DeepSeek-R1 and V4 series) and Alibaba's Qwen have taken the global AI community by storm, offering top-tier performance that rivals or beats closed Western alternatives while remaining freely accessible to developers worldwide.

  • Frameworks & Infrastructure: Beyond LLMs, Chinese entities have contributed critical underlying open-source AI infrastructure, such as Huawei's MindSpore framework and the Compute Architecture for Neural Networks (CANN).

3. Domestic Infrastructure: The OpenAtom Foundation

In 2020, China launched the OpenAtom Foundation, its first dedicated non-profit open-source foundation, structured similarly to the Linux Foundation or Apache Software Foundation. Backed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and tech giants, it actively collaborates globally (such as with the Eclipse Foundation) to build vendor-neutral technology. Key hosted projects include:

  • OpenHarmony: Originally donated by Huawei, this open-source terminal operating system has grown exponentially to over 130 million lines of code and tens of thousands of global contributors.

  • openEuler: A digital infrastructure operating system optimized for enterprise cloud and edge environments.

4. Tech Giants as Global Maintainers and Donors

Major Chinese enterprises (such as Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and Huawei) have moved away from "free-riding" on open source to becoming Platinum sponsors and top-tier contributors to international foundations:

  • Linux Kernel & Kubernetes: Huawei is consistently one of the top corporate contributors to the Linux Kernel and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), having donated critical projects like Volcano (a cloud-native batch scheduling engine).

  • Databases and Web Tech: Chinese companies have heavily optimized and contributed back to major open-source databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, alongside releasing specialized open-source engines like Baidu's XuperCore (blockchain) and Tencent's TencentOS Tiny.

Are you interested in exploring how specific Chinese open-source projects (like their operating systems or AI models) compare to Western counterparts, or are you researching the broader geopolitical and policy shifts behind this movement?

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