Seems to me there’s a huge amount of incentive for Chinese companies to pursue these things since China isn’t investing in a massive data centre build outs the way the US is. And their chips are still behind. Another major application is in robotics where on device resources are inherently limited. The only path forward there currently is by making the software side more efficient. It also looks like Chinese companies are embracing the whole open weights approach and treating models as shared infrastructure rather than something to be monetized directly.
And local models have been improving at a really fast pace in my opinion. Stuff like Qwen 3.5 is not even comparable to the best models you could run locally a year ago.
Seems to me there’s a huge amount of incentive for Chinese companies to pursue these things since China isn’t investing in a massive data centre build outs the way the US is. And their chips are still behind. Another major application is in robotics where on device resources are inherently limited. The only path forward there currently is by making the software side more efficient. It also looks like Chinese companies are embracing the whole open weights approach and treating models as shared infrastructure rather than something to be monetized directly.
And local models have been improving at a really fast pace in my opinion. Stuff like Qwen 3.5 is not even comparable to the best models you could run locally a year ago.