alt Hacker NewsAs a regular consumer I've pretty much decided I'll buy China's tech if they start competing in the western market. There's a lot of talk about China dumping into western markets and warnings that we'll be left with nothing at some point, but I'm sitting here right now with... nothing.
I'll buy RAM from the devil if it's the difference between running local AI vs becoming dependent on a cloud provider.
If not for China majority of green energy supply wouldnt exist. Neither would near-SotA LLMs with open weights.
I might not like CCP, Xi or whatever they do inside their country, but China is net positive for the world.
Refreshing considering how more and more of western countries are controlled by populists and / or delussional billionare overlords who reject global warming, vaccines, nuclear energy, etc.