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Yet again, a free open-source Chinese AI has beaten all the investor-funded favorites like OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, etc. (futurology.today)
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If you tend towards conspiracy theory-type thinking, you might wonder if the Chinese government is directing its AI sector to use open-source AI to undermine US AI efforts. If they aren't, is it just a coincidence that this is what is happening?

Two things seem inevitable to me if the trend of Chinese open-source AI equalling Western efforts keeps up. A) - It will eventually bankrupt the Western AI companies and their investors, as the hundreds of billions poured into them will never be realized in profits. B) The 21st century will be built on Chinese AI, as it will be what most of the world uses.

The former seems more dramatic in the short term, but the latter is what will be more significant in the long term.

Moonshot AI just released Kimi K2: China is not so behind in Agentic AI either it would seem.

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[–] simple@piefed.social 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

1T parameters though, while technically free there's no way anybody can run it locally.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago

Not home users, but small businesses could. It can ensure total information security.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 19 points 5 days ago

ya love to see it.

and there is no way China doesn't understand the soft power implications of open sourcing this stuff.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It will eventually bankrupt the Western AI companies and their investors, as the hundreds of billions poured into them will never be realized in profits

Pretty sure they don't need any help with that

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

No such thing as a free lunch, kids.