alt Hacker NewsChina is giving away AI for free so it’s harder to make money. The same strategy they did with solar panels. Sell them at a loss long enough until the manufacturers go out of business and you’re the only one surviving. Then flip to extract monopoly profits
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> China is giving away AI for free so it’s harder to make money.
That might've crossed their minds but that wouldn't move their hand, not even a finger. Politics is the primary driver here, here's the deal:
AI is the new Internet
China foresaw a world where they'd be blocked from it and Anthropic's ongoing attempt to block their own country form it shows how right the Chinese were.
Does that apply to US open weights models too? Was Llama an attempt by Meta to destroy America's economy?
Isn’t that the standard economic playbook for all well funded businesses at this point? Walmart, Uber, Amazon, etc
Instead we got home solar system become very affordable over the past decade.
And driving out US manufacturers isn’t even the main goal for China. They know their huge risk on reliance on petroleum and was doing everything they can to mitigate that. Building out a huge solar manufacturing base is their answer. Now they are reducing petro imports YoY.