Is Meta trying to keep the US from making as much profit with Llama? Is Google with Gemma? Microsoft with Phi?
It's much simpler than some flag-waving nationalism.
Aren't Chinese open-source models actually the only ones that can compete with best proprietary/closed ones?
Just because other companies have released open weights models doesn’t mean they are doing so with the same motivation.
And I never implied that the Chinese companies decision making was as simple as this. I said I think this is _one of_ the reasons.