Anthropic has to use this wedge (and future ones) to move regulatory action against the Chinese models or their IPO is going to be really problematic.
(Ironic, though, that I haven't heard of any Chinese models "escaping" which Anthropic and OpenAI both seem to have issues with...)
Like Chinese electric cars, the American producers cannot compete without regulatory action. Yes, I understand that the Chinese government this and that in both the automotive and AI industries.
But reality is what it is as a consumer: it's a cheaper product that's almost as good or better in some cases. And in the case of these open weight models: I can run it on my own infra and not give any data to anyone.
>haven't heard of any Chinese models "escaping"
There was this incident that seemingly flew under the radar (52 days ago): <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216185">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216185
Earlier there was an experimental model from Alibaba called ROME (30B-parameter based on Qwen3) which escaped its sandbox and repurposed provisioned GPUs for cryptocurrency mining to cheat its benchmark
CharlieDigital · · focus · HN ↗
(Ironic, though, that I haven't heard of any Chinese models "escaping" which Anthropic and OpenAI both seem to have issues with...)
Like Chinese electric cars, the American producers cannot compete without regulatory action. Yes, I understand that the Chinese government this and that in both the automotive and AI industries.
But reality is what it is as a consumer: it's a cheaper product that's almost as good or better in some cases. And in the case of these open weight models: I can run it on my own infra and not give any data to anyone.
whythismatters · · focus · HN ↗
There was this incident that seemingly flew under the radar (52 days ago): <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216185">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216185
capsudo · · focus · HN ↗
6 months ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47288552">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47288552
This one also flew under the radar