Cheap Chinese open-weight providers are the AI world's seed oils, argues blogger
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-10-19
Aaron Bergman offers a provocative analogy: the lowest-cost Chinese open-weight providers (he stresses the providers, not the models) are like cheap seed oils—temptingly cheap but with uncertain long-term costs. The thread expands into data-security concerns about sending prompts to them.
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