alt Hacker NewsIt isn't "China" which open-source LLMs, but individual Chinese labs.
China didn't yet made a sovereign move on AI, besides investing in research/hardware.
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baq • yesterday at 9:01 PM
Axiom of China: nothing of importance happens in China without CCP involvement.
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throwup238 • yesterday at 9:01 PM
As far as I can tell AI is already playing a big part in the Chinese Fifteenth five year plan (2026-2030) which is their central top-down planning mechanism. That’s about as big a move as they can make.
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iambateman • yesterday at 8:54 PM
This is a distinction without a difference.
I think "investing in research and hardware" is fairly relevant to my claim of "China has been investing in open-source LLMs." China also has partial ownership of several major labs via "golden shares" [1] like Alibaba (Qwen) and Zai (GLM) [2], albeit not DeepSeek as far as I know.
1: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/13/china-to-take-...
2: https://www.globalneighbours.org/chinas-zhipu-ai-secures-140...