For a brief moment there were a lot of comments about how Chinese tech companies are our saviors in the age of AI because they were releasing their models. It was an edgy contrarian take that was getting a lot of traction, mostly from commenters who were unfamiliar with Alibaba and thought it was the anti-Big-tech

My explanation is simpler and does not rely on assuming that anyone is an idiot. Or an edgy contrarian.

I'm not frustrated or disappointed, we have lots of models from Qwen already. We haven't really lost anything. And plenty of players only release "smaller" models anyway, so it's hardly unprecedented.

I’m waiting for the grand reversal where Anthropic abuses the Qwen API to train the next Haiku.