A decade ago, before the 2017-2022 transformer/LLM revolution, China was ahead in some AI subfields like computer vision and facial recognition.<p>Top Western AI researchers like Dario Amodei, founder and CEO of Anthropic, used to work for Chinese companies like Baidu a decade ago.<p>Interestingly some of these people who used to work in the Chinese AI sector a decade ago, like Amodei, are now calling for GPU export restrictions against China. Either they know their moat against China is very limited or they witnessed some things in China that makes them uncomfortable with China getting ahead again in AI.
> If the U.S. continues to stymie open source, China will come to dominate this part of the supply chain and many businesses will end up using models that reflect China’s values much more than America’s.<p>I'm not sure the U.S. as a whole is stymying open source -- or at least there don't seem to be governmental pressures to keep things closed source. Take the llama models, for instance.