China just shipped a 744B parameter frontier AI model. MIT license, runs on consumer hardware, no NVIDIA required, 1M token context window.
Dropped one day after the US suspended access to Fable 5.
Open-source AI is freedom tech on the same axis as self-custodied bitcoin and encrypted messaging. When governments restrict access to frontier models, open weights are the exit.
The uncomfortable truth: the country that built the open internet is ceding open AI to China because its leading labs chose the closed-source, regulatory-capture playbook instead.
Dropped one day after the US suspended access to Fable 5.
Open-source AI is freedom tech on the same axis as self-custodied bitcoin and encrypted messaging. When governments restrict access to frontier models, open weights are the exit.
The uncomfortable truth: the country that built the open internet is ceding open AI to China because its leading labs chose the closed-source, regulatory-capture playbook instead.
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