Open-source AI models in China like DeepSeek and Qwen now lead global rankings, challenging US tech giants with free, collaborative development approaches.
  • prole [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I wonder if this will actually matter. A lot of companies are already paying Microsoft for copilot and whatever other nonsense they can come up with. I’m sure smaller companies will opt for cheaper alternatives, but the enterprise apps will almost certainly just keep paying Microsoft like they always have. Barely any of them use Linux and it doesn’t even have the “China bad” optics.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPEnglish
      7·
      5 months ago

      There are reasons why even large enterprises would choose Chinese models. For example, a lot of companies would rather keep their data on prem, and that means running your own model like DeepSeek within the org. Another factor is costs. For example, Anthropic recently changed their pricing making it more aggressive. So customers like Cursor are in a bind. Cursor now run their own DeepSeek instance locally to provide cheap access for users.

      Also, while “China bad” might play in the west, the rest of the world is far more concerned about the US right now given that it’s the Americans and not the Chinese who are running a global trade war and trying to create technology tiers for different countries.