AI Sovereignty
China Made Open Source a Strategy. If It Pulls Back, Who Fills the Gap?
If China restricts future open weights, who fills the gap? The West's open-model capacity is real (Ai2, Mistral, Apertus) but scattered and underfunded.
China May Restrict Its AI Exports — Your Local Models Don't Care
China's commerce ministry met Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai about walling off top AI models. The US did the same in June. The weights on your disk don't care.