I think trying to tease apart the private and public sector is very hard in China. Setting aside state owned enterprises, even nominally private companies that employ at least 3 CCP members are required by law to form a party committee within the company to represent party interests. And given the party functionally is the government, you have a situation where the government has representatives inside every major private company. There’s no obvious parallel to this in western countries.

Any large company in China is only allowed to get this way by direct control from the CCP.

This isn't really anything nee and I thought it was common knowledge by now.

> are you saying Americans will think that

I wasn't saying anything about what Americans would think.

I was saying about what they would inevitably be told by US politicians and by US AI companies.

If you were a sales-rep or marketeer at a US AI company, I bet you would be using the old "evil communists" routine in relation to any closed Chinese model.

I was saying that by releasing as open weights, the company has removed that line of argument.

Clearly I was a bit broad in my use of "the Chinese" when in this case it was, as you say, a Chinese company.