Chinese Tech Geeks' Open-Source Sci-Fi Novel Thrives for Two Decades
A Chinese open-source sci-fi novel, created by tech enthusiasts, has maintained its popularity for 20 years, predating the country's recent advancements in open-source AI models.
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Years before China’s DeepSeek stunned the world with its powerful open-source AI model, Chinese tech geeks began experimenting with the openness ethos through a collaboratively written open-source novel, still going strong after nearly two decades. With millions of words spanning nearly 3,000 chapters, The Morning Star of Linggao has been crowd-written by thousands of contributors – mostly tech geeks, engineers, military enthusiasts and STEM professionals – who insert themselves as characters in...
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