> That's strategic sabotage to say the least.

It is clear from the beginning that the Chinese Open Model are a proxy for economic warfare. Anyway their singular goal is to dethrone US monopoly on SOTA model and burn all the economic hype and investments. If this strat works, which we will see after Anthropic/OAI IPO, we'll be in for an interesting ride

I am of course eager to pay needlessly more to support poor Anthropic/OpenAI.

Well, what can I say? If you play dirty, then so can everyone else. The way I see it, consumers are the real winners here. Just another variation of classic competition. If such open models didn't exist, then make no mistake, OpenAI and Anthropic would be making sure you are bleeding dry with your wallet without much innovation.

> It is clear from the beginning that the Chinese Open Model are a proxy for economic warfare.

I mean, what would you expect? Like USA isn't openly planning to weaponize their current AI primacy [1, 2].

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/prom...

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americ...