I think it's as simple as looking at the incentive structure. The Chinese gov't has incentive to kneecap US monopoly on frontier models. It makes sense for them to continue down this course if it strengthens their position.

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nicce 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Chinese gov is not even needed. Deepseek was already profitable before this whole thing started. They even had the GPUs.

	▲	mmonaghan 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		how profitable though

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paxys 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Chinese govt has a strong incentive to break dependence on the US for AI needs and build domestic models, but not to spend trillions to subsidize these models for the rest of the world.

	▲	mmonaghan 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agree but I think they'll spend whatever they can to subsidize and break dependence on US models. Whatever isn't spend on US models will be spent on chinese models. Europe will remain a small single digit % unless they get their act together.

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greenmilk 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The Chinese gov't and also the rest of humanity...

I'm not sure how everyone in the US forgot that monopolies are bad

	▲	frollogaston 14 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Closed models doesn't mean monopoly, cause they compete. And if the best thing for humanity is for good open models to exist, even those evidently required good closed models to copy from.
	▲	mmonaghan 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Who's got a monopoly though lol?