[hobofan]

There doesn't seem to be any sign of Chinese companies stopping to produce open models to destroy the American moat.

Given that a lot of the R&D in China is state sponsored that also seems to be a good pawn in US-China relations.

[daxfohl]

Eventually there'll be some kind of standard for licensing that's required of LLM runtimes, like software and digital media. Of course people will figure out workarounds, but just like pirated software, half of it will be infested with malware so most people will just pay for the license.