The US blocked high power graphics cards to specific countries, and then got all shaken up when their money moat was pole-vaulted by an embargo’d country wielding jank cards.
Why is this a big deal, exactly?
Who benefits if the US has the best AI, and who benefits if it’s China?
Is this like the Space Race, where it’s just an effort to spit on each other, but ultimately no one really loses, and cool shit gets made?
What does AI “supremacy” mean?
Machine learning isn’t my bag, so I couldn’t say. But it’s interesting that currently the best tools are open source, including China’s DeepSeek. Google: “We Have No Moat And Neither Does OpenAI”
Well, they’re not actually open-source. The models are freely available, but the training data is not, so it’s not actually possible for competitors to reproduce the same result.
Asterisk on that - I consider black forest’s image generation models to be leading, and their pro variants are commercial only.
That said everything else has leading models that are all open source I think, except for ChatGPT which is becoming obsolete right now.
This news cycle is one hell of a nothing burger.