Great quotes. They didn’t ignore the existence of tireless efforts of Western tech they benefited off it and stole it.
Obviously it’s a power play as China seeks influence beyond money now that’s secured. I think people should receive it on its merits.
The strategy of open sourcing to eliminate the competitive mode of those with proprietary designs is a bit of a desperate play, favored by the weaker competitor, lacking access to the desired market.
You can also perceive it as hostile and in line with dumping practices, where a high volume of product is dumped into a market at cheap prices.
But besides these tactical aspects, which are no doubt being utilized, there’s a inescapable technological reality that obviously efficiency of AI will improve, and the most efficient designs would seem to rise to the top. This utilization of and guiding of inevitable historical trends for their own advantage is a very Chinese communist dialectical materialist approach to take, and I think we can expect to see more of these types of ‘surprising’ moves by entities out of China in the decades ahead as these kind of competitions heat up. The Chinese have a very deep and a very different ideological background that would justify these types of moves as making perfect sense to them, although they simultaneously appear as nonsensical to people from other backgrounds.
Obviously it’s a power play as China seeks influence beyond money now that’s secured. I think people should receive it on its merits.
The strategy of open sourcing to eliminate the competitive mode of those with proprietary designs is a bit of a desperate play, favored by the weaker competitor, lacking access to the desired market.
You can also perceive it as hostile and in line with dumping practices, where a high volume of product is dumped into a market at cheap prices.
But besides these tactical aspects, which are no doubt being utilized, there’s a inescapable technological reality that obviously efficiency of AI will improve, and the most efficient designs would seem to rise to the top. This utilization of and guiding of inevitable historical trends for their own advantage is a very Chinese communist dialectical materialist approach to take, and I think we can expect to see more of these types of ‘surprising’ moves by entities out of China in the decades ahead as these kind of competitions heat up. The Chinese have a very deep and a very different ideological background that would justify these types of moves as making perfect sense to them, although they simultaneously appear as nonsensical to people from other backgrounds.