alt Hacker News"China" isn't giving anything. These are Chinese companies leveraging their best competitive strategy at the moment: competing on price.
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satvikpendem • last Sunday at 7:47 PM
The Chinese government is explicitly calling for open weight AI models, which influence its companies.
Those Chinese companies are being funded by a substantial amount of government financing, I think at least 20% has come directly from state owned investment firms or government entities and probably more now. You obviously lose precision when you’re talking in sweeping terms like “China” but I don’t think it’s entirely unreasonable in this case. The Chinese government is playing a much more direct role in AI investment and research than other nations.