Minimax M3 too, and huawei claims to be releasing non-nvidia dependent training software too. openPangu 2.0 could be a shake-up if it holds up as a good model
China may not care about open source, but they know they will personally fund AI through government investments while US relies on private investments, best way to scare private investments is a free capable alternative for everyone
Add on the fact that they actually invested in energy infrastructure and can offer AI very cheap to their citizens and you can get a population well versed in AI to reduce menial tasks and focus on more productive things (if we're to believe the claims of the technology)
The incident yesterday was technically from April 28th, with most communications coming out on the 2nd and 3rd, with it being "Resolved" yesterday.
This incident is the second attack, because they failed to secure their infra again. Everything being reported is a bit delayed, which makes it seem like this is a single attack, not technically two instances.
I work in the Education sector as IT. We don't know much else either.
Everything we know has come from reddit threads / hackernews threads. There has been 0 official communication today indicating this was an attack, yet the login page was defaced by ShinyHunters.
No surprises here, no wonder streaming services are seeing less subscribers when the digital subscription model is just as annoying and costly as cable TV.
CDN costs are pennies compared to inference and training though, HuggingFace will just get another 100 million and be set.