Positive users agree Chinese AI concerns are separate from open source value since models become shared once released, while negative users call the distinction a convenient excuse that ignores aggressive Chinese tactics.
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He argues state subsidies are independent of open-source distribution.
@OfficialBBrooks @beffjezos Of course they have influence, but the U.S. government does not have a war on U.S. open source models. I think you can both discourage discourage the use of Chinese models AND loosen restrictions on U.S. private and open source ones
@martin_casado Open source is not the problem. Banning the tool because China is using it more aggressively is a very expensive way to protect the current American business model.
@beffjezos Once the Chinese models are open sources they're evryones models.
@martin_casado You can dump closed source too, OS is just the convenient excuse
I'd actually say that "open source" as a dumping strategy makes little sense The point of dumping is to bankrupt the competition, yes, but you're still selling Chinese OS, in theory, just shifts the revenue from US labs to US neoclouds. That's… not a big blow to the US
It’s a shame we’re conflating the Chinese AI situation with Open Source more broadly. The latter is foundational to a healthy industry. The former, is more complicated and the core arguments are largely independent of OS (you can subsidize and dump without OS).
Positive users agree Chinese AI concerns are separate from open source value since models become shared once released, while negative users call the distinction a convenient excuse that ignores aggressive Chinese tactics.
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Now this is actually a complex system that should be mathematically modeled. Do sub-frontier models even compress frontier margins or volume? How much, for what gap? Hyperscalers, smaller clouds, on-prem behave differently wrt OS LLMs. It's not wordcellable
This kerfuffle is about Chinese models, not open source. Let's not get it mixed up. There should be zero FUD about American open source models
@martin_casado Exactly.
@martin_casado correct.