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Yeah I have similar feeling:

1) They try similar like Zuck with LLama make sure GPT or Claude or Gemini is not the real winner in the West world like Android/iOS was for smartphone, Facebook/Whatsapp for social media/IM, Google Search for search, Windows for desktop OS. Majority people get used to to single product and they don't switch often.

2) Trying to kickstart community similar like LLama kickstarted big community around it that helped with tooling, testing, etc.

3) Slowing down development of ai companies in the west - giving them less data for training (after all midjourney, elevenlabs, llama kickstarted training on copyrighted content, it's pretty sure they using user data at least from e.g. free version of GPTo-mini) and bleeding their budget kind of war of attrition.

4) Familiarise the west audience with their ai models - after all still not many people using models like DeepkSeek since not many providers host them and majority of people don't have fast enough computer to run full models fast enough - Trae helps with that



They did what they did because everything they want to buy is banned or is to be banned by your government.

Or are you being sarcastic? You must be being sarcastic.


I'm not being sarcastic. If that would be the only reason you said then they wouldn't open source it or didn't market for english speaking audience.




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