No one in the US is going to fund pretty good open source with VC money.
US has OpenAI/ Anthropic/ Google/ meta/ SpaceX atleast trying to make frontier foundation models 2 are using VC money + cash flow, last 3 are mainly cash flow + equity and debt.
China has state banks and similar willing to fund lower margin open source labs.
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No one in the US is going to fund pretty good open source with VC money.
US has OpenAI/ Anthropic/ Google/ meta/ SpaceX atleast trying to make frontier foundation models 2 are using VC money + cash flow, last 3 are mainly cash flow + equity and debt.
China has state banks and similar willing to fund lower margin open source labs.