A reminder that China isnt "Good" because they are seemingly pushing for open source.

Reddit r/singularity 08/21/26, 04:07 PM News

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Summary

The article argues that China's promotion of open source is driven by economic interests to destabilize US markets, not inherent altruism, citing the Qwen model as an example.

The only reason China develops open source is because they have no value in being closed source when they are not the leaders. Its in their best economic interests to release open source models to destabilize and reduce market cap of US markets. Does this mean they are the bad guys? No. It just means If they were hypothetically the leaders, or reach a point where they can get a loyal, paying customer base, they wouldn't share an ounce of code. Current example: Qwen.

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