What would the benefit of this be? If China stops open weights, US labs still have the intelligence frontier. Maybe once Chinese models have speed, cost, and intelligence beat but right now they don't.

Undermining out entire economy by subsidizing the release of DIY versions of our main economic drive sounds like a huge win for China.

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applicative 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Maybe once Chinese models have speed, cost, and intelligence beat but right now they don't.

Yes this is why I referred to 'months' and was downvoted by people who can't distinguish their politics from reality. You are restating exactly the text you are criticizing.

This is the nature of mechanical parrotlike repetition of propaganda:

a) You can have 'frontier' models with closed weights. Your sentence is basically a contraction within itself, again, the weight of ideology.

b) No one actually knows whether or not the closed weights of Bytedance are beyond all existing frontiers. Again the weight of ideology blinds you to the fact that the real 800 lb gorilla of Chinese Ai is more closed than Anthropic.

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ricardobeat 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The latest ByteDance Seed model is behind Opus 4.6 in performance. It’s not even in the conversation atm.

The parent made a totally coherent commment that China closing off their open weight models would cede the frontier (and majority of AI users worldwide) to the USA. Nothing you said counters that point.

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		Bytedance models completely pervade business use across China. It is the OpenAI of China, whether you think its a good model or not.

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gravypod 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If they did have a super powerful secret AI why would avoid:

1. Selling access to the US? 2. Ship more and better software? 3. Talk about it publicly?

If you had a secret AI better than anything currently available the mere mention of this would crater the US tech investment sentiment.

They could even host these Chinese models through AWS and sell at-cost inference on Bedrock and obliterate the US model companies.