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by Gifdead

Open-Weight Race

Closed US safety gardens lobotomized their own models. China turned open weights into industrial policy, and the compute-moat story died on a cheap API receipt.

6 updates · 6h

  1. Distillation paranoia: the moat is a receipt trail

    Silicon Valley's distillation paranoia

  2. China AI cope while open weights keep shipping

    Silicon Valley's China AI Copium

  3. Hugging Face picks Chinese models over guardrailed US ones

    Hugging Face Uses Chinese AI Over Guardrailed US Models

  4. API heist collapses the compute moat story

    The API Heist and the Collapse of the Compute Moat

  5. Sovereign AI and the export gift cut both ways

    The Rise of Sovereign AI and the Export Gift

  6. Open-weight insurgency as industrial policy

    China's Open-Weight AI Insurgency

  • Procurement bans / soft bans on Chinese open models
  • Standards bodies and China-led AI diplomacy as adoption rails
  • Foreign Influence owns who captures institutions with the tech

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