[mythz]

Didn't expect to be cheering for Chinese AI companies and Facebook over mega funded US tech corps, but here we are.

Were fortunate that not all SOTA AI models are controlled by US Tech corps. Right now they're in the "maximum marketshare at all costs" stage, but they'll be looking for their ROI after achieving a dominant share. I trust OpenAI the least, it's still early on in the AI age and they look like the company that they were formed to prevent.

Can only hope that DeepSeek, Facebook, Qwen and Mistral continue to release open models. Unfortunately if a companies motivation is ROI from cloud hosting then they're going to be incentivised to stop releasing their models as OSS to prevent competition which we've seen with Mistral's best models although in their latest model released today under Apache 2.0 the CEO is saying they’re renewing their commitment to Open Source [1], so we’ll have to see how long that holds. We're also starting to see that from Alibaba whose latest Qwen2.5-Max model is only available through their Alibaba Cloud. Luckily Facebook business model isn't reliant on cloud hosting so we should continue to expect Open models from them. So far efficiency seems to be DeepSeek's competitive advantage as despite being OSS they're still the cheapest hosting provider [2] despite other hosting providers not having to recoup any R&D and training costs.

[1] https://x.com/arthurmensch/status/1884972984202338450

[2] https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-r1

[yieldcrv]

Its open source vs closed source, not China vs US

but this new dimension of geopolitical competition is now sidelining the cautionary anti-AGI populace, which was honestly probably saving us a few years