I'm not sure how local AI models are meant to "entrench China in global supply and logistics". The two areas have nothing to do with one another. You can easily run a Chinese open model on all-American hardware.

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WarmWash 6 hours ago | parent [-]

They are building a pipeline, and the goal is to get people in the door.

If you forever stand at the entrance eating the free samples, that's fine, they don't care. Other people are going through the door and you are still consuming what they feed you. Doesn't mean it's going to be bad or evil, but they are staking their territory of control.

	▲	zozbot234 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh for sure, they're getting a whole lot of Chinese people and other non-Westerners through the door already - mostly, the people who are being ignored or even blocked outright by the big Western labs. That's territory we purposely abandoned, and they're going to control it by default.