And I wholeheartedly thank China for doing this. The open weight models are fantastic, and make power consolidation of AI monopolies less likely. Open weights bring real competition to the space and help commoditize inference.
That was a disruption if I've ever seen one, but they are also paying the price. Every LLM maker right now is losing money.
much to our delight as peasants who were being lined up at the token furnaces of the big american labs.