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I know first hand companies paying them. Chinese internal software market is gigantic. Full of companies and startups that have barely made into a single publication in the west.

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Of course they are paying them. That’s not my point. My point is this is the only way for them to gain market share and they need Western users to train future models. They have to give them away. I’d be shocked if compute costs are not heavily subsidized by CCP.

> My point is this is the only way for them to gain market share and they need Western users to train future models.

And how would releasing open-weight models help with that? Open-weights invite self-hosting, or worse, hosting by werstern GPUaaS companies.

But the CCP only has access to the US market because they joined the WTO, but when they joined the WTO they signed a treaty that they wouldn't do things like that.

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