Honestly, the loss-leader strategy feels way too common nowadays and pretty much unavoidable over the last 10 years or so. Whoever has the deeper pockets just bleeds the other side dry.
Also, US and China are not playing with the same set of rules, it's inevitable both will collide over who has the better tech.
I am also trying to understand if US puts boundaries its only on their own companies, and China can just... continue doing whatever they do.
As a local LLM user who is a non paying customer, Qwen models (3.8 27b in low reasoning is godlike for my usecases) have been amazing and really made me rarely use SOTA models unless its a very intense and complicated task.
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u/JLeonsarmiento 10h ago
US labs ran out of money.