[thfuran]

There are only a few frontier models, and aren’t they all operating under the same incentives?

[jerojero]

Open source models maybe not necessarily as they can (in theory) be self hosted.

I think right now the incentives of open source chinese model developers is to provide good (comparable to SotA) and cheap models so the space is not captured by a few private american companies because they've seen how hard it is to compete in the space when that happens.