alt Hacker NewsThe fact that much of the world is as unconcerned with the interests of the US as with those of China, if not less so, should give pause to Americans.
As a citizen of neither country, Chinese open models are in my interest more than US closed models. My only concerns is that if/when Chinese AI becomes more powerful, they too will have little incentive to make their best models open weights.
Actually this would be pretty great, because it would incentivize US labs to pursue the open weights strategy for the same reasons China is currently.
I genuinely think that this is what the trends and incentives point toward: Competition to develop open weights models and to develop efficient inference hardware to run them.
This would be good! But government policy could very easily screw it up.