AISimon Willisonabout 13 hours ago
Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?
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Ben Thompson proposed a US law making training data collection fair use and barring terms of service that forbid distillation. The policy would help US open models compete with Chinese counterparts. Alibaba released Qwen 3.8 Max as open weights, possibly influenced by Xi Jinping's speech encouraging open source.
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