This term conveys the idea that China’s push for global dominance in generative artificial intelligence (AI) can be served by a diverse universe of competing foundation models — applications trained on broad data that can be fine-tuned for downstream tasks. For some, the reference to a hundred models is reminiscent of mythologized campaigns of China’s revolutionary and political past, such as the “Hundred Regiments Offensive” of the 1940s. This approach has been enthusiastically pro...
