Comment by icedrift
6 hours ago
Reuters has been reporting that Chinese government is undergoing similar investigation to the US; blocking the export of domestic frontier models. They boil down to "anonymous sources" but it does seem inevitable as the tech gets stronger and stronger.
I am afraid this is may happen soon.
Now that they have compute capacity to train larger models, there is a non-zero chance they will be in the lead by next year.
In which case they will probably stop sharing to protect their position.
It came (at least in part) from a document in May where the CCP pretty much said that they will need to review models to make sure they don't threaten national security.
Which basically translates too "Don't give away tools that can be used to undermine your own goals".
So much for the speculation that China was encouraging the release of free/cheap models to mess with the US AI economy.