What a stupid headline: "Out of spite."
It's called engineering. It's called business.
It's a playbook that worked for Linux versus the monopoly of Windows. A play that worked so well that Microsoft's own cloud business now runs more Linux than Windows, a generation later.
It worked for Android versus the iPhone and now Android dominates.
It worked for the cloud which is built on nothing but open source stacks.
It's what America should be doing instead of erecting regulatory barrier to protect our East India companies.
The Chinese are using the playbook we pioneered in the last generation of tech: open, freely distributed, widely diffused.
And we are using the old Chinese playbook of authoritarian, gated, controlled under the guise of safety.
It's un-American and idiotic and we are being played for fools by NIMBYs and safety doomers and regulatory capture policy whisperers.
We need to get back to doing business the we did in the past, open, if we want to win the next generation or were going to be stuck with a million hoops to jump through, plus super high prices, plus terms of service that can change on the fly, plus anti-competitive policies and spyware at the deepest level of our stack while the other 6 billion people in the world use someone else's stack.
Or maybe we will finally wake up and go back to being the greatest country in the world, firing our coaching staff, ripping up the garbage playbook we're running now and go back to old school ground and pound.
Export controls were supposed to choke Chinese AI. Instead they got cut off from compute and built models 10 to 35 times cheaper than ours out of spite.