I'm kinda baffled by this whole belief system, that instead of seeing that other guys on the other side of the planet have managed to do what is generally though to be the pinnacle of Western engineering & investment with the fraction of the resources, and maybe improve upon it in some way, and their conclusion isn't 'maybe this stuff isn't as hard, and could do much better, or at least do the same thing the Deepseek guys did', but it devolves into this weird nationalist shtflinging great power competition thing, as if these models were the result of deliberate nation-state level coordination of government and industry like the space program.

For me as a consumer, competition is good - that means companies have less leverage over me, which is beneficial even if I decided to never use a Chinese model ever.