EMERGINGDOSSIER · /n/chinese-open-weights-as-strategic-threat
Open weights: China now dominates
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DeepSeek's R1 shock and Qwen's takeover of Hugging Face show that the open-weight supply chain is increasingly Chinese, undermining US compute leverage, export controls, and Western safety norms.
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FRAMINGS
- · DeepSeek shock
- · Qwen dominance
- · open-weight supply chain
- · export control failure
PATTERNS
- · DeepSeek R1
- · Qwen most-downloaded
- · Chinese supply chain
- · $600 billion
- · trillion dollars evaporated
- · open-weighting Chinese models
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