alt Hacker News> Only China can release good, open weight models and American companies can’t compete. Oh by the way all the spend is for nothing because China alone can release open-weight models thus destroying American AI.
Let me be blunt and let me say: you don't understand why we people support Chinese models.
1. Chinese labs started with open weight models, US labs started with dooms day narrative
2. US VC based companies must become greedy to win and return the money, Chinese companies can make 1/10 of that revenue and still be happy
3. Meta in this case, started nicely with Llama, then switched to closed models, kicked out researchers to build data labeler CEO empire inside Meta. Now opening again, what's next? closing again?
US companies published their research on transformers. The only reason Chinese companies have any models at all is open US research...
Add distillation to that, and the entire Chinese AI sphere is really just an offshoot of public US AI information...