It also has the benefit of crashing the US economy.

russli1993 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

China does not want to crash US economy. US economy strong means more purchases for our goods. But US want to crash Chinese economy by: 2018 trade war, 2019 Huawei sanctions, sanctioning at least 1000 large influential Chinese companies, 2020 Tiktok theft, 2022 total ban on GPUs, semiconductor equipment going to China regardless of end use, banning all sorts of Chinese goods such as EVs, cars, batteries, drones, even DJI cameras, 2020 fake lie about Xinjiang to implement full ban of anything made by Xinjiang, 2025 50%+ tariff on Chinese goods. I don't think building LLM was thought has important until Anthropic went on full China hating, banning anyone on a Chinese IP using the service, even companies headquartered in China's oversea offices. Did you know that a regular person in China trying to use Claude to ask some innocent question gets banned? Talk about everyone created equal and democratic world.

You leave us with no choice but to build technologies ourselves. If its bad for Anthropic, well, you could owned the market in China, oh well, you reap what you sow.

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j2j8 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Crashing China's largest export market is devastating for China's economy.

	▲	elictronic 20 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		China is a centralized economy that has been fighting a tariff war against the US for the last few years. If we see an economic collapse like 2008 China loses money but we lose a whole lot more. China still ends up with production and a easier ability to integrate with other countries. We became a powerhouse after WW2 when all the other countries had their financial bases destroyed. We became a superpower providing the products to others to rebuild. Our market is all about short term growth, service economies, and goals driven by whoever is in office at the time. If they don't have a plan around this exact eventuality I would be beyond surprised. Basically their system is more robust than ours to a major market event. Who pays for expensive services when they are choosing between food or keeping their economy going. People will pay for the equipment to keep their economy going. Who provides that.
	▲	pnut 20 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		We just did this song and dance with the tariff war between US and China last year. It was revealed that 3% of China's exports are purchased by the US, and that they are fully economically prepared to take that to zero when push comes to shove.