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- correction
Strengthened the model-lineage point with a better example.
- Added Sakana AI’s Namazu — the models behind Japan’s sovereign-AI-framed consumer chatbot are post-trained on Kimi K2.6 and DeepSeek V3.1. A clearer illustration than the Cursor and Writer examples, because the product is explicitly positioned as national AI independence.
- first published
Third in a set: this covers Chinese services, alongside big-tech subscriptions and independent alternatives. Written because the Chinese labs were excluded from both other articles while quietly leading several categories.
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