I tend to agree but open weight model seem to still be lagging behind in terms of capacity, even the recent ones like GLM 5.2. If anything I hope the sudden, unpredictable changes of policy will make EU companies think twice before putting all their eggs in the same AI vendors's basket, all US based. Vendors coming back on their retention policies like they did with Fable 5 or plainly cutting the service without notice should be a gigantic red flag about your business continuity.
It's maddening how the corporate world can get shy of using any of those Chinese models, just because they are Chinese. This kind of FUD makes little sense when the inference is done in-house or by an EU/US cloud provider.
> I tend to agree but open weight model seem to still be lagging behind in terms of capacity, even the recent ones like GLM 5.2.
Haven't they been mere months behind frontier for year(s) now? And if US frontier models are going to be restricted by the US gov from a massive share of their worldwide potential customer base going forward, that also correspondingly cuts US labs’ revenue and ability to train new models, so unless Chinese models are wholly dependent on distilling more powerful models…