It does, it's just not the reason. Most of the work is done before that point, and as I said z.ai used a weaker model. Besides, this is all strictly one-sided, as nobody knows how much Anthropic and OpenAI borrowed from Chinese labs' open research and weights (and they innovated a lot, to put it mildly, starting with first reasoning models worth talking about long before OAI did the same). Chinese labs are also severely restricted on hardware.
This entire story makes certain American AI shops look cartoonishly evil and Chinese ones relatively sane. Not only they want to grab without giving anything back, they also want to sabotage everyone else's AI research and do plenty of terrible things like media manipulation on the global scale and getting in bed with the government. This can't possibly end well, for the Americans in the first place.
This entire story makes certain American AI shops look cartoonishly evil and Chinese ones relatively sane. Not only they want to grab without giving anything back, they also want to sabotage everyone else's AI research and do plenty of terrible things like media manipulation on the global scale and getting in bed with the government. This can't possibly end well, for the Americans in the first place.