Was more mentioning the article about the economic aspect of China vs US in terms of AI.

While I do understand your sentiment, it might be worth noting the author is the author of bitandbytes. Which is one of the first library with quantization methods built in and was(?) one of the most used inference engines. I’m pretty sure transformers from HF still uses this as the Python to CUDA framework

There are startups in this space getting funded as we speak: https://olix.com/blog/compute-manifesto