U.S. chip restrictions helped push China to build and spread open AI models.
The authors tested this by looking at policy documents, open model releases, GitHub activity, research papers, company-linked papers, and U.S. patents.
They found that after major U.S. export controls, Chinese developers increased activity around open LLM projects much more than U.S. developers did.
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Link – arxiv. org/abs/2606.15999
Title: "U.S.Policies Unintentionally Accelerated China's Open AI Ecosystems"
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