I don't think it makes sense to be that cynical about a company opening their research and powerful technology to the public. The only underhanded thing they could be doing is lying, and it doesn't look like they are - but if they are, we'll know soon enough.
If the goal is to erode the moat around powerful US tech companies, by making tech that rivals theirs and releasing it to the public, it's just good for the world. The only way it isn't is if you believe that power should remain in the hands of certain elites.
This absurd denial of "anything coming out of China" has no place here, and ignoring groundbreaking research simply because it is from China will only leave you falling behind.
I have no love for the CCP, and I believe that they are deceptive - but China has 1.4 billion people in it. It is not a monolith, and it is unsurprising that there would be good people doing good research in such a massive population.
Except it absolutely operates as a monolith on corporate issues, and just because the Chinese government is able to throw trillions of dollars at problems doesn’t mean their innovations, when they rarely discover them, are fit for economic viability.
DeepSeek is proof there isn’t a moat, not a demonstration of Chinese superiority in AI work. When you don’t care if your work makes any business sense, there’s often a lot you can appear to accomplish, until it needs to be sustained.
I'm not talking about "Chinese superiority" at all. I'm talking about whenever there is news about a positive thing happening in China, people make it about the Chinese government and China vs. the west.
Not everything that happens in China needs to be about China vs. America.
You are just shifting to another nebulous criticism instead of substantiating anything about skepticism of research from Chinese people.
It is clear to everyone in the room that recent ML innovations are incredibly powerful and actively being used in many areas to substantial effect. It may be overhyped, but there is clearly real fuel behind it, it's not all hot air.
If the goal is to erode the moat around powerful US tech companies, by making tech that rivals theirs and releasing it to the public, it's just good for the world. The only way it isn't is if you believe that power should remain in the hands of certain elites.