It's funny how the big AI labs can effortlessly say both "if we don't continue the arms race we'll just be choosing to lose to China in 7 months" and "if Chinese labs didn't copy our models using ""distilation attacks"" they would be years behind". The enemy is both as weak or strong as the paragraph demands.
Such a ridiculous article given deepseek v4 pro release today that is intended to be served on Ascend 950 chips signaling an ability of E2E owning of the AI stack.