A look at China's bid to build an alternative global order in AI by making open models widely available and training people in developing countries to use them
THE SO WHAT
AI is becoming a foreign-policy export — China is pairing open models with talent training to seed long-term dependency in developing markets. If you operate in these regions, your stack and standards choices are now entangled with geopolitics, not just price and performance.
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