Open-weight models from China currently play a minor role in the German economy, according to a survey by the digital association Bitkom. Only two percent of companies using AI use DeepSeek, and one percent use Alibaba’s Qwen models. This puts Chinese providers far behind the leading models from the USA. ChatGPT from OpenAI remains the dominant player by a clear margin: 76 percent of AI-using companies use it, up from 70 percent in the previous year (multiple answers possible). This is followed ...