Chinese AI Twitter Goes Viral Parsing Zhipu, Kimi, DeepSeek's Open-Source Playbooks
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-21
A viral Chinese-language X thread neatly sums up three open-source philosophies: Zhipu's as "forced defense" (hoard the big models, release the small ones), Kimi's as "free tasting" (open-source to lure developers, then upsell pricey APIs), and Liang Wenfeng's as "cutting off people's livelihoods" — squeezing profits down to hardware-cost recovery and sterilizing the industry's dream of cashing in on model premiums.
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