The best explanation is that it's a goal of the CCP to generally commodotize LLMs, because LLMs will ultimately be a compliment to manufacturing (which China dominates), and you always want to "commodotize your compliments".
I think this explains why they are open sourcing broadly. It's not to be nice. It's a strategic play by the Chinese government to help ensure there are many players in this race and not too much power accumulates to American labs (even if American labs benefit in the process)
But doesn't that justification work for any government, not just Chinese? In fact, it works for any easy-to-copy products, which act as positive externalities. It's just some Americans have this mindset that AI is a scarce good because everything must be.
bwest87 · · focus · HN ↗
I think this explains why they are open sourcing broadly. It's not to be nice. It's a strategic play by the Chinese government to help ensure there are many players in this race and not too much power accumulates to American labs (even if American labs benefit in the process)
js8 · · focus · HN ↗