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The performance gap will likely close as Chinese hardware improves. This is happening very rapidly.

Already DeepSeek v4 is being hosted on Huawei Ascend 950. What do you think those cost relative to NVIDIA gear?

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I wouldnt put it past the US gov to ban foreign models. they tried to ban tiktok. what is being demosrrated here is silicon valley can not withstand a competitive market.
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Good luck banning Open Source models.

Not only that but other countries are very unlikely to follow suit, so it is just a straight-up productivity tax on the US.

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Yeah see the Nvidia china us gov self own. The assumption seems to be 1.4 billion people in a middle income country are dependent on 300 million for tech.
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