alt Hacker News> For instance, one regulation which really puts American AI companies at a disadvantage is IP law.
How? The big corps are rapaciously eating all IP, demonstrating that the law doesn't apply to them anyway.
When they compete with the Chinese, who won't respect their IP, only then are they competing on an even playing field.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-approves-anthropics-1...
That was just one settlement but precedent is clear. If you do what Anthropic and OpenAI did, expect to be in court. This is one reason why you don’t see labs popping up out of nowhere in the US.
Also if you distill from Anthropic and OpenAI, expect to be in court. Whether you think distillation is fair game or not, the US court system is not cheap. But it turns out that Z.ai, Minimax, Moonshot, Xiaomi, Deepseek, Alibaba etc don’t need to worry about that.