They are a geopolitical competitor whom the US (West in general) is falling behind. We used to hear all this talk of free markets, free trade, rules based order and globalism when the West was dominating. Now that they are falling behind it all goes out the window. Rather than try to build up the US and its populace to compete, via infrastructure spending, free education, universal healthcare it chooses to double down on an imperialistic strategy - intervene in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran (failed!), annex Greenland , possible interference in Bolivia https://thegrayzone.com/2026/0... and Columbia https://www.cbsnews.com/news/p...
Is it all just Trump? the cynical would say the US has always done these things and at least Trump just does it openly, see the book Killing Hope: https://www.cia.gov/library/ab...

correction, that was total Intel valuation increase, so the US government made 10% of that or just $50billion increase, still not bad

Own the stock, get voting rights and financial benefit. Instead of a 'tax' it could be a purchase - or a tax and a purchase. Also there is a lot of blowback simply because it is Bernie Sanders, meanwhile Trump purchased, with no protest and no criticism and no debate, 10% of Intel:

On Thursday, the president also highlighted the value of the government's stake, saying Intel's valuation has climbed from about $100 billion in August to roughly $600 billion today.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/i...
Wow the government made half a trillion!

It is a Brazil punk/heavy metal band : https://misantropiahc.bandcamp... Their music and protest embody an aversion to society, with lyrics addressing everyday issues as well as social and personal revolution.
This message obviously means the revolution is on baby!

What it boils down to is the common peasants cannot get access to top models while a chosen few others do - the already big companies. Furthermore, this looks to be the case from HERE ON OUT because every later model will be better than the previous. Well look on the bright side, they have to release them when the opensource Chinese models catch up to match capability, otherwise everyone will use those.

Now the big question is: Is there any way they can ban the Chinese models short of blocking the whole internet?

after they had worked on it for decades and had $1 trillion in the bank, just what happened the day they canceled it: https://www.genolve.com/design...

Sam Altman used to run Y Combinator, that makes him supreme king of the Startup Bros, he knows what he's doing!

Public money going to private gain. Couldn't all licenses, enabled by public money, send some percent of 'commercialization' to UBI/UBC ???

(ii) establish clear policies for ownership, licensing, trade-secret protections, and commercialization of intellectual property developed under the Mission, including innovations arising from AI-directed experiments;

https://www.whitehouse.gov/pre...

How did Communist China get ahead anyway that the US needs to catch up or hold them off? We were all told capitalism was the superior system. Is China socialist or capitalist? https://www.youtube.com/result...

Is China just lucky? have not all other socialist countries failed? The World’s Most Surprising Economic Success Story Is North Korea, says of all places, the WallStreet Journal: https://www.wsj.com/world/asia...

AI can lead to a post-scarcity world where people are free to do what they want, including being an artist without having to worry about making a living off of it. Think of how many artists had to give up the profession because they could never financially get off the ground. Because AI trained on humanities collective knowledge, that is a good argument that it is publicly owned, support people like Bernie Sanders to make sure we actually head to a post-scarcity future:

I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. This would guarantee that the trillions created by AI are used to improve the lives of all of us — and block oligarch decisions that harm the American people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I submitted this but it was removed from submission que in the blink of any eye: https://responsiblestatecraft....

Be careful what you wish for. How could you not see this coming. Oh the good side, they probably care nothing about the AI 'escaping' - which more and more I'm thinking is actually the ideal outcome.

The IPO filing grants Musk one billion Class B shares, potentially worth over $600 billion, on top of his existing stake, vesting only if SpaceX hits a $7.5 trillion market cap and establishes a permanent Mars settlement of at least one million people.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...
Say what you will about Musk but that is a tough goal - 1 million people on Mars - if achieved his compensation it is worth it especially considering most people look at that goal, scratch their heads, and say 'how can that be profitable?' https://www.genolve.com/design...

U.S. citizens might be able to vote themselves UBI from the profits of US AI companies but what about other countries? Maybe the country (India) puts a tax on all non-local ai models and uses it to fund a local Indian UBI. But then some people/companies might use a VPN to access the model without paying a tax. So how could it work??? Seems like countries without sovereign AI are completely screwed.