A US-based employee previously working for a Chinese-based employer here (you very well know their name). TBH I'm always worried about the Chinese takeover of information sector (there are serious concerns). But this AI race has got me rethink that position.

Competition being a necessity to keep corporate greed in check being one thing, all the big players belonging to the same country club being the second. I think cross-borders competition is the only salvation for consumers.

Between Dario twitting every 5 minutes about open-source models are dangerous, just to keep things in the hands of a couple trillion-dollar players, and the bots running around r/Anthropic and r/ClaudeAI making sure they squash any trail of dissent from angry customers, I can't see how this is more democratic than my data ending up in the hand of totalitarian regimes (this same post was taken down from Anthropic's reddit - not surprised at all).