If you tend towards conspiracy theory-type thinking, you might wonder if the Chinese government is directing its AI sector to use open-source AI to undermine US AI efforts. If they aren’t, is it just a coincidence that this is what is happening?

Two things seem inevitable to me if the trend of Chinese open-source AI equalling Western efforts keeps up. A) - It will eventually bankrupt the Western AI companies and their investors, as the hundreds of billions poured into them will never be realized in profits. B) The 21st century will be built on Chinese AI, as it will be what most of the world uses.

The former seems more dramatic in the short term, but the latter is what will be more significant in the long term.

Moonshot AI just released Kimi K2: China is not so behind in Agentic AI either it would seem.

  • simple@piefed.social
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    1T parameters though, while technically free there’s no way anybody can run it locally.

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      Not home users, but small businesses could. It can ensure total information security.

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    ya love to see it.

    and there is no way China doesn’t understand the soft power implications of open sourcing this stuff.

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    It will eventually bankrupt the Western AI companies and their investors, as the hundreds of billions poured into them will never be realized in profits

    Pretty sure they don’t need any help with that

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    bankrupt the Western AI companies and their investors, as the hundreds of billions poured into them will never be realized in profits

    That’s already happening…

    Their big sales pitch to companies is “it’s so easy you’re employees will find out ways to use it!”

    Because they have zero idea how to monetize it.