They can try. I don't think they'll be able to get the toothpaste back in the tube. The data will just move our of the country.
replyModelScope is the Chinese equivalent of Hugging Face and a good back up. All the open models are Chinese anyways
replyNot true! Mistral is really really good, but I agree that there isn't a single decent open model from the USA.
replyMistral is cool and I wish them success but it consistently ranks extremely low on benchmarks while still being expensive. Chinese models like DeepSeek might rank almost as low as Mistral but they are significantly cheaper. And Kimi is the best of both worlds with incredible benchmark results while still being incredibly cheap
replyI know things change rapidly so I'm not counting them out quite yet but I don't see them as a serious contender currently