qwen opensourced at 2023.8
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/03/alibaba-launches-open-source...
kimi-k1.5 opensourced at about the same time deepseek-r1
even deepseek itself opensourced v3 before r1's success
so the headline should be:
the 'World' Noticed China AI Models After DeepSeek's Success