American companies want a scan of your asshole for the privilege of paying to access their models, and unapologetically admit to storing, analyzing, training on, and freely giving your data to any authorities if requested. Chinese ulteriority is hypothetical, American is blatant.

It's a little sad that tech now comes down to geopolitics, but if you're not in the USA then what is the difference? I'm Danish, would I rather give my data to China or to a country which recently threatened the kingdom I live in with military invasion? Ideally I'd give them to Mistral, but in reality we're probably going to continue building multi-model tools to make sure we share our data with everyone equally.

I don’t care about whatever “ulterior motives” they might have

My country’s per capita income is $2500 a year. We can’t pay perpetual rent to OAI/Anthropic

if you want to understand why labs open source their models: http://try.works/why-chinese-ai-labs-went-open-and-will-rema...

Open weight!

Do they also open-source censoring filter rules? Like, you can't ask what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989.

> I know if the potential ulterior motives.

And you think the US tech giants don't have any ulterior motives?!