They are simply taking the recipe they used to monopolize global internet platforms (Google Search, Facebook, YouTube, iOS, Android, Windows) and attempting to extend it into Big AI. This is entirely unsurprising and if not for China open sourcing models they would have almost certainly succeeded. Even now they are more successful than not due to how gullible the global population outside of China is; let’s not ignore the fact that Open AI is still by far the largest global market share on consumer AI and Gemini is their closest competitor, not any Chinese model, due to close integration with their existing platform monopoly.The American AI companies pay lip service to open source but it is pure PR. In reality they are 99.999999% focused on building up and maintaining walled gardens and captive markets based on proprietary models. Chinese open source ecosystem and low AI costs (energy or otherwise) are the ultimate weapon to eventually win dominant market share globally. Western companies cannot even help but to outsource decent white collar work to India just to save a little money in the grand scheme of things. Are we really supposed to believe they can universally and forever stick with extremely expensive American AI? Especially with their energy generation bottleneck, cost of energy infrastructure, slow build times, high energy costs, etc.