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Re:Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash by apexalpha on Friday September 18, 2026 @01:57AM (#49750612)
The Chinese were directed to it from their government.

We have no such government with a mandate to do that.

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Re:Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash by EagnaIonat on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:08AM (#49750678)
While there is no official mandate, many countries of the EU are working on models that are government funded.

The main one (IIRC) is Spains ALIA.

https://alia.gob.es/eng

There is also OpenEuroLLM and EuroLLM.

https://www.openeurollm.eu

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Re:Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash by jambutters on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:29AM (#49750796)
Nah, they wouldn't have released deepseek open source if they were the case
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Re:Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash by Zambyte on Friday September 18, 2026 @08:27AM (#49753412)
How are you sure about that? Undercutting your competition (at cost even) to minimize their power is a common strategy.
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Re:Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash by podocarp on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:04AM (#49751023)
Source?
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