U.S. big tech will keep losing to China unless trillion-parameter models go open source
prajdabre · x · 2026-07-26
- The author argues that U.S. big tech will keep losing ground to China unless it starts open-sourcing trillion-parameter models.
- The post says accessibility for ordinary users should not block the strategy now; the hosting problem can be solved later.
- It is essentially a strong take on open source as a competitive moat in frontier AI, not a product announcement.
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