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Re:American Closed Source vs. Chinese Open Source: A False D... by elbci on Monday January 19, 2026 @07:07PM (#46686320)
Take a look at that sea of kids taking the GaoKao to get into Beijing univ and you know the software stack is lost already, it's now only about the fabs (hence the Greenland?).
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Re:American Closed Source vs. Chinese Open Source: A False D... by djwide on Monday January 19, 2026 @07:26PM (#46686446)
Either way, not sure protectionism and siphoning money to frontier model owners will help us.

But also by that argument they would have beaten us to frontier model tech as well. Their education system appeared better than ours 20 years ago. We could have a bigger and broader conversation comparing the two systems and China's has a lot of flaws

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