Comment by mrngld
1 day ago
It's state-backed, or at least state-directed, scaling to capture market share, standard CCP playbook since the 80s.
Whether dumping is a loaded term of not is irrelevant; it's a specific term of art in economics and policy, it fits with the context of past national actions there, and fits what's currently happening here perfectly. They put money into these models, then give them away for nothing (below cost).
How does releasing open weight models to FOSS communities help capture market share for subscription-based cloud services?
The US AI vendors are also baked and controlled by the state, as we’ve seen over the past half year. AI is pretty much everywhere baked by state actors
I think the comment above you is saying that it is called dumping when done by state but not when done by vcs