The US government is becoming more involved in controlling AI models, while open-source Chinese models are improving at a rapid pace. @jvisserlabs exp...
The US government is increasing its involvement in controlling AI models, while open-source Chinese models are rapidly improving. According to @jvisserlabs, this trend should push more people toward open-source AI in the coming months.
Background
- Anthony Pompliano is a prominent crypto investor; J Visser (jvisserlabs) is a tech analyst covering AI and infrastructure.
- "Hyperscalers" are major cloud providers (Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta) running massive data centers.
- Open-source AI models have publicly available code and weights, letting anyone run them freely. Chinese open-source models (e.g., Alibaba's Qwen, DeepSeek) are rapidly catching up to US frontier models like GPT-4.
- Pompliano and Visser argue that as the US government increases control over commercial AI through regulation and export controls, open-source models — especially from China — become more appealing to developers seeking fewer restrictions.