It's in their strategic interest to be perceived as the good guys in this because the US is aggressively limiting access, but the thing is more fundamental:

The rest of the world has been shown that access to commercial US models can be withdrawn with one stroke of a pen. Even to "foreigners that live in the US", aka crazy shit. Because: that literally happened.

But for open weights models that can function fully disconnected from any infra or borders or pen stroke, China cannot do the same. That's why one ought to get a bunch of those nice 24TB USB desktop disks. And leech models like there is no tomorrow. Because who knows. But once you have it, no one can take the capability away from you anymore bar boots on the ground invasion. Good luck with that.

I'm no China shill at all. I don't trust them at all, nor any other overlord. The difference is: they cannot tell me what I can and cannot do with current capability. Even if they desire it. Sovereignty of the only kind that matters has been strengthened: my sovereignty.

Cofounder of Hugging Face hacked by OpenAI models says it is 'a wake-up call'

It's in their strategic interest to be perceived as the good guys in this because the US is aggressively limiting access, but the thing is more fundamental:

The rest of the world has been shown that access to commercial US models can be withdrawn with one stroke of a pen. Even to "foreigners that live in the US", aka crazy shit. Because: that literally happened. 

But for open weights models that can function fully disconnected from any infra or borders or pen stroke, China cannot do the same. That's why one ought to get a bunch of those nice 24TB USB desktop disks. And leech models like there is no tomorrow. Because who knows. But once you have it, no one can take the capability away from you anymore bar boots on the ground invasion. Good luck with that.

I'm no China shill at all. I don't trust them at all, nor any other overlord. The difference is: they cannot tell me what I can and cannot do with current capability. Even if they desire it. Sovereignty of the only kind that matters has been strengthened: my sovereignty.