China's AI models are impressing developers but losing investors. The problem? Open-weight AI is a much worse business than open-source software.
  • chgxvjh [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    42·
    4 个月前

    I think it’s mostly right, maybe lacking perspective at some points, like the losses of Chinese companies are nothing compared to the losses of US companies.

    And some funny bits

    Even if the Chinese labs make little money themselves, they can force American competitors to cut prices and make it harder to recover the billions they spend training new models.

    waow-based

    • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
      35·
      4 个月前

      Even if the Chinese labs make little money themselves, they can force American competitors to cut prices and make it harder to recover the billions they spend training new models.

      but business insider, that’s just good business

      • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        31·
        4 个月前

        “do good business” is only rule #1 of capitalism tho. it’s superseded by rule #0, which is “be extremely racist”

    • dastanktal [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      4 个月前

      I think there are entirely different incentive models for Chinese companies, aren’t there? Like, aren’t they getting paid by the government to develop these models and that’s how they’re making their money?

    • the rizzler@lemmygrad.ml
      4·
      4 个月前

      it’s not open-source in the sense that they’re not gonna do this thing that’s completely infeasible to do and wouldn’t provide all that many benefits anyway, unless they got every ai company to train off the same data instead of DDoSing every server they can find