tszzl: governments prefer self-hostable Chinese OSS over mercurial US API exports
tszzl · x · 2026-11-13
Following his tweet on Chinese open-source goodwill, tszzl adds an observation: many governments count on the stability of self-hosting Chinese open-source models rather than depending on potentially mercurial US model inference API exports. He stresses this is what he's observed, not a recommendation.
Together the tweets sketch why open models carry geopolitical appeal: they give nations a sovereignty option independent of any single vendor or country.
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