The cynic in me is much more likely to see this as western companies giving up on innovation in favor of grift, and their competition in the east exposing the move for what it is.
This is why competition is good. Let's make this about us (those who would do this in the open) and them (those who wouldn't) and not us (US) and them (China).
I just realized, this sounds almost exactly like Japan's Fifth Generation AI project[1], where the Japan government funded a massive AI project where they built lots of specialized hardware (symbolic AI). Unfortunately, Intel kept chipping away to the point that it made more sense to just run Intel.
Although it sounds like that project, if successful, would've been pretty fantastic for computing in general. I'm far less interested to see proprietary models secure dominance, whichever country they're in.
> OpenAI Hails $500 Billion Stargate Plan: 'More Compute Leads to Better Models'
The cynic in me is much more likely to see this as western companies giving up on innovation in favor of grift, and their competition in the east exposing the move for what it is.
This is why competition is good. Let's make this about us (those who would do this in the open) and them (those who wouldn't) and not us (US) and them (China).