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[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The open availability of cutting-edge models creates a multiplier effect, enabling startups, researchers, and developers to build upon sophisticated AI technology without massive capital expenditure. This has accelerated China’s AI capabilities at a pace that has shocked Western observers.

Didn't a Google engineer put out a white paper about this around the time Facebook's original LLM weights leaked? They compared the rate of development of corporate AI groups to the open source community and found there was no possible way the corporate model could keep up if there were even a small investment in the open development model. The open source community was solving in weeks open problems the big companies couldn't solve in years. I guess China was paying attention.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Open source is the only way forward with AI.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

China "open sources" a lot of their technologies. They treat it as a form of competition, we'll show you how to do x but you show us how to do u and whoever is better at both wins out, there's a lot of short videos on how BYD taught other Chinese EV manufacturers and even Ford how their automated manufacturing plants work. The end result, everything becomes a highly optimized process. Glad to see they're also adopting this framework with open sourcing AI development.

This is also a reason why there's a hugeee cultural clash with US IP theft.