China Just Made An Open-Source AI Model Even Cheaper Than DeepSeek The end of this article makes the simple point that, although the Chinese AI can use your data in ways you don't know about, so can all the others, making it debatable whether too many people will care. China's AI research is currently equal to that of everyone else combined, and this kind of Open-Source AI is just the beginning of what we can expect. Just as the US has restricted technology, it is to their advantage to spread the technology, which is getting to the point that a hobbyist can make their own from scratch at home. While Nvidia and all the rest are busy with servers and business applications, the Chinese are developing the open source they need to dominate the consumer markets.