It’s hard to see the economic merit in China’s investments in AI, or anyone’s investment in AI for that matter but the market has never really been rational. But China’s investment in particular is confusing since it’s open source.
I think what they’re going for is to undermine the American AI market. That money flowing into big tech has strategic consequences for China, and economic advantages for America. It’s in China’s interest to demonstrate cheap and free AI to cut off that funding to US tech.
There are valid use cases for AI that will achieve tanglible prosuctivity boosts. The consumer-side of AI is just what takes the media focus point. The open source strategy is as you said; to undermine US capital concentration in Silicon Valley.
It’s hard to see the economic merit in China’s investments in AI, or anyone’s investment in AI for that matter but the market has never really been rational. But China’s investment in particular is confusing since it’s open source.
I think what they’re going for is to undermine the American AI market. That money flowing into big tech has strategic consequences for China, and economic advantages for America. It’s in China’s interest to demonstrate cheap and free AI to cut off that funding to US tech.
There are valid use cases for AI that will achieve tanglible prosuctivity boosts. The consumer-side of AI is just what takes the media focus point. The open source strategy is as you said; to undermine US capital concentration in Silicon Valley.