Near zero probability of that. The model is more efficient and the company who trained it did not blunder trillions of dollars to do so. China has better electricity infrastructure than the US too, so the likelihood they can scale out before the US ever could is high. Long term deepseek, Alibaba, etc hold the most cards for sustainable AI even despite the attempted Nvidia embargo

I am not shilling China, this is just what is happening right now.

Judging by the multiple providers selling it for around the same price (including non-VC funded competitors): no, it isn't subsidized.