Kai-Fu Lee has restated a case that has become the standard argument from Chinese industry: American restrictions on advanced chips pushed Chinese labs toward efficiency and open release, open weights spread faster than licensed APIs, and cost-sensitive markets outside the US and Europe will default to whatever is free and good enough. He extends it to labour effects and to the … [Read more...] about China’s Open-Model Advantage: Testing the Argument Against the Export-Control Record
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Nvidia Buys the Distribution Layer: Hugging Face at $12.9 Billion and the China-Model Risk Disclosure
Nvidia's agreement to acquire Hugging Face values the platform at roughly $12.9 billion, of which about $11.9 billion goes to shareholders and up to $1 billion is retention equity for employees. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027, subject to regulatory approval. It is Nvidia's second-largest acquisition, behind the Groq asset purchase at the end of last … [Read more...] about Nvidia Buys the Distribution Layer: Hugging Face at $12.9 Billion and the China-Model Risk Disclosure