There is no need to worry about Trump banning China‘s open source model at all.
Summary
A Chinese perspective argues that potential Trump-era bans on Chinese open-source AI models can be circumvented by using Vietnamese companies as distributors and re-labeling models as Vietnamese-origin, ensuring continued global access.
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