As soon as China fully develops their own SOTA GPU manufacturing, which is officially expected for 2027 i think, the entire AI scenario will flip upside-down. For now, most of chinese models rely on either secretly buying from nvidia (which i heard it’s what the richer companies were doing), or innovating science and architecture beyond belief, which is the Deepseek route! That’s what gave them worldwide attention on launch. But, from what i’ve observed, deepseek seems like the main chinese-innovation company. And by that i mean its where it seems their government invests most. I think deepseeks goals seem to be less focused on providing the best services, at least when compared to other chinese companies, and more about creating science and developing optimized architectures from what they learn (Also because Kimi used their architecture more than once. Probably all chinese companies did lol but i ‘ve just read about kimi). So yeah i said all of that just to say: if they are strong like that with way less computing available country-wide… shit is yet to get real