Ask HN: Will Anthropic or OpenAI start offering Chinese open source models?
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9 hours ago
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Do you think there could exist a situation in the market where either Anthropic or OpenAI will offer chinese models for their clients?
blitzar
8 hours ago
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Will Ford or Tesla start offering German cars?

Do you think there could exist a situation in the market where either Ford or Tesla will offer BMWs or Mercedes to their clients?

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Gecko4072
9 hours ago
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I think they have a compute shortage and this wouldn’t look very good to investors.
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jqpabc123
9 hours ago
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I think they have a moat shortage and this shouldn't look very good to investors.
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jqpabc123
9 hours ago
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I think a more likely scenario is Anthropic and OpenAI clients start using Chinese open source models directly.

Why pay more for a middleman if you can go directly to the source?

The problem for Anthropic and OpenAI is to devise some political scheme to stop them.

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paulcole
4 hours ago
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So Anthropic makes a new model, Qwen or whoever learns how it works and makes their model nearly (but not quite) as good and then sells it back to Anthropic?

Like the soap-making scene in Fight Club.

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jnaina
8 hours ago
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sure, upon the successful launch of porcine aviation
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eth0up
4 hours ago
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I assure you, I can throw an Oscar Meyer just as far as a Hebrew National.

And let's remember, China conquered the US pork market many years ago ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield_Foods )

Porcine aviation may be closer than we think. We would be wise to not misunderestimate the Chinese.

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petesergeant
9 hours ago
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Can you explain why you think they would?
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