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This feels like it needs a lot of asterisks. A race implies someone will win it - how exactly is China winning by making those models freely available? "The West" can use that tech, it's not locked away in some vault.
We could rephrase this as "the shareholders aren't maximizing their value and the average Joe doesn't have a problem with it".
Edit: In DeepSWE Sol High scores the same as Fable High for ~1/3 of the cost.
Estimated final electricity price for large industrial customers in energy-intensive industries:
USA 50 USD/MWh
China 68 USD/MWh
I used to have snow for weeks each winter in my city and now if I get 2-3 days of snow a year it's unusual. Extreme weather events where it rains in one day as much as in one month have become a recurring event to the point we're re-planning sewage systems around these things.