China didn't yet made a sovereign move on AI, besides investing in research/hardware.

There is no CCP master plan for open models, any more than there is a Western master plan for ignoring Chinese models only available as an API.

(not that I disagree)

The difference between the CCP, where "private" companies must actively pursue the party's strategic interests or cease to exist (and their executives/employees can be killed), and the US, where neither of those things happen and the worst penalty for a company not following the government's direction (while continuing to follow the law, which should be an obvious caveat) is the occasional fine for not complying with regulation or losing preference for government contracts, is categorical.

Only those who are either totally ignorant or seeking to spread propaganda would even compare the two.

https://triviumchina.com/research/the-ai-plus-initiative-chi...

1: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/13/china-to-take-...

2: https://www.globalneighbours.org/chinas-zhipu-ai-secures-140...

It's also true that Anthropic and OpenAI have post-training that censors politically charged topics relevant to the United States. I'm just surprised you'd deny DeepSeek does the same for China when it's quite obvious that they do.

What data you include, or leave out, biases the model; and there's obviously also synthetic data injected into training to influence it on purpose. Everyone does it: DeepSeek is neither a saint nor a sinner.

Just because everyone does it doesn’t mean one isn’t a sinner for doing it.

I'd assume that when the Chinese do bad things people in China feel the same way about that as folks in the US feel about the US doing evil stuff, which is to say "very little at all". Why would they need to lie, any more than the US needs to lie? Do the average Chinese folks have more conscience then the average US citizen?

What a nonsensical thing to say. The CCP ruthlessly sensors all discussion of the massacre and every LLM created in China sensors it. So stop it with the BS whataboutism

https://venturebeat.com/security/deepseek-injects-50-more-se...

If this really is a geopolitical play(I'm not sure if it is or isn't), it could be along the lines of: 1) most AI development in the US is happening at private companies with balance sheets, share holders, and profit motives. 2) China may be lagging in compute to beat everyone to the punch in a naked race

Therefore, releasing open weights may create a situation where AI companies can't as effectively sell their services, meaning they may curtail r&d at a certain point. China can then pour nearly infinite money into it and eventually get up to speed on compute and win the race

Seems like it may have a chance of working if you look at the companies highest valued on the S&P 500:

NVIDIA, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta Platforms, Broadcom, Alphabet (Class C),