Pretty tired of every article on Chinese AI being framed entirely in terms of geopolitical plots and nothing else. From what I can tell, Chinese companies releasing open weights was hatched in its private sector ecosystem, one major factor being that the leadership at Deepseek consists of actual open source zealots. Deepseek releasing their models under MIT license then forced the hands of other Chinese companies (including Moonshot AI, which initially wanted to be closed). It wasn't some grand plot hatched in Beijing (even if the CCP belatedly gave their consent after the fact).