Two contractors told Business Insider they earned up to $280 per hour on the ongoing project.

"You use AI, or you fall behind," said Erik Smolinski, an options trader who has consistently beaten the S&P 500 to become financially independent.

A new front has opened in the U.S.-China competition in artificial intelligence: open-weight, local AI models. Until recently, the most capable AI models were too big and too costly to run anywhere ...

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