My conspiracy theory hat is that somehow investors with a stake in openai as well is sabotaging, like they did when kicking emad out of stabilityai

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storus 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

More likely some high ranking party member's nepobaby from Gemini sniffed success with Qwen and the original folks just walked away as their reward disappeared.

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ahmadyan 4 hours ago | parent [-]

source?

	▲	WarmWash 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is no source. But the party in China does have ultimate control. There would never be an Anthropic/Pentagon situation in China, because in China there isn't actually separation between the military and any given AI company. The party is fully in control.

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liuliu 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

apples v.s. oranges. The later is true, Emad did get sabotaged (for not being able to raise money in time, about 8-month before he's leaving). Junyang didn't have that long arc of incidents.