Yep. This was also why some of the more idealistic open model types at Alibaba were axed.
I said this was happening months ago but no one listened.
I said this was happening months ago but no one listened.
They just want to monetize and scale out their hyperscalers and the associated shared services, which is what AI has become.
So it'll work to meet their needs - a decoupling of the US and the China ecosystems, along with reducing the risk that India, Vietnam, Korea, or another country tries to conduct distillation attempts on Chinese models as well.
Most ExChina organizational buyers were they to use a Chinese open-weight model would create very strict sandboxes (none of the VPC or monitoring fuck-ups that OAI and Anthropic made) and not use the Chinese cloud.
Yeah, for that, distribution via SaaS-ish products is important right? My thinking for now is that 10 years down the line, the responses API is not going to be what any of these guys will be selling. Rather it will be like whatever salesforce is doing, or that recently announced GPT-Synopsys product. Or stripe, AWS, type companies will sell it integrated here and there. Chinese software doesn't have that same reach right.
Within china of course they can scale out if thats what you meant