Open Models Meet Operator Playbooks
Tuesday, May 26, 2026 · 8 min

Hugging Face alum Tiezhen Wang breaks down why China’s AI labs are winning attention with open models, while Capital Allocators turns John Kim’s $70 billion fundraising career into an operator playbook. The through-line: distribution is now strategy.
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Hugging Face alum Tiezhen Wang breaks down why China’s AI labs are winning attention with open models, while Capital Allocators turns John Kim’s $70 billion fundraising career into an operator playbook. The through-line: distribution is now strategy.
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