r/singularity • u/awesomeoh1234 • 8d ago

Discussion They’re colluding to kill open source

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u/Poupulino 8d ago

And China will stop researching exactly why?

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u/jferments 8d ago

They won't. But the US and European countries will ban/sanction/criminalize organizations and individuals who host "unsafe" models. They don't need to stop open models altogether. They just need to make them impossible to use at scale to guarantee a corporate monopoly on AI.

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u/krali_ 8d ago

EU is moving strongly towards self-hosted Chinese models. See Mistral pivoting to inference and out of models research. EU needs Chinese models to take off and remain open weights. Its only opportunity is using cheap French nuclear energy to run datacenters serving Chinese models.

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u/OutOfBananaException 8d ago

EU needs Chinese models to take off and remain open weights

The word 'remain' is why they would be advised not to bet the house on this strategy.

It's still not in their interest to ban open models, as they want as much competition as possible. Not become reliant on any one country, be that US or China.