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Claude and ChatGPT too expensive, Chinese AI models surge in use due to low cost
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That's the plan, undercut funding for US AI labs, also the main reason they've been releasing open source models after spending millions to train them essentially getting zero financial return. They didn't release them for the love of FOSS or just donate that capital for the lolz.
no one is claiming they did. lolz.
I mean anybody who lived through the rise of Linux on the server should understand the benefit of releasing common infrastructure in the open and amortizing costs that way. The real difference in philosophy is that Americans companies treat the model as the product, while Chinese companies see models at infrastructure you build products on top of. You amortize the cost of deploying it at scale by sharing knowledge and iterating quickly to bring the cost down.