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China Morning Missive
Did anyone expect #China to take up the mantle for an open-source AI revolution? Great to see, no doubt, but there’s also the real potential that the recent AI moves in China will be catastrophic for all American AI platforms.
To start, I do want to stress that the sudden arrival of China AI platforms wasn’t at all planned. What is playing out here on the ground is nothing more than a reaction (albeit very quick) to the DeepSeek model released the other week. Even the Beijing leadership is having to react in real time as was clearly evident with the hastily convened Tech CEO meeting yesterday.
What has been noticed here is how the American competitors reacted. Concern bordering on fear. Open-sourced models are potentially an existential threat to the likes of OpenAI at least to the underlying business rationale of these platforms.
What has been missed throughout all of noise is that the open-source option wouldn’t have been what China necessarily desired. I was just necessary. Unironically, open-source AI was the direct result of America export controls of high end chips into China. They very approach taken meant to halt, or at least delay, China’s advances in AI have actually led to the opposite outcome. And the entire China AI momentum is only set to gather steam.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/baidu-make-ernie-ai-model-open-source-end-june-2025-02-14/
Did anyone expect #China to take up the mantle for an open-source AI revolution? Great to see, no doubt, but there’s also the real potential that the recent AI moves in China will be catastrophic for all American AI platforms.
To start, I do want to stress that the sudden arrival of China AI platforms wasn’t at all planned. What is playing out here on the ground is nothing more than a reaction (albeit very quick) to the DeepSeek model released the other week. Even the Beijing leadership is having to react in real time as was clearly evident with the hastily convened Tech CEO meeting yesterday.
What has been noticed here is how the American competitors reacted. Concern bordering on fear. Open-sourced models are potentially an existential threat to the likes of OpenAI at least to the underlying business rationale of these platforms.
What has been missed throughout all of noise is that the open-source option wouldn’t have been what China necessarily desired. I was just necessary. Unironically, open-source AI was the direct result of America export controls of high end chips into China. They very approach taken meant to halt, or at least delay, China’s advances in AI have actually led to the opposite outcome. And the entire China AI momentum is only set to gather steam.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/baidu-make-ernie-ai-model-open-source-end-june-2025-02-14/