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@mattwridley’s book The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010) persuasively argues that human progress and innovation are largely driven by the exchange and combination of ideas—much like genetic recombination in biology. He calls this phenomenon “ideas having sex.” If normal sharing or technological innovation is “ideas having sex” this plethora of simultaneous open AI models (with published weights and papers about technique) is an “idea orgy.” The collective innovation should easily soar pass anything one company can do alone. No idea if the Chinese govt is encouraging this amount of openness or it’s just caused by a competitive dynamic. Either way it’s formidable and should easily win over single proprietary players (anywhere in the globe). That’s not a political viewpoint. It’s an analytical one.