China may have a message for Airbnb, Nvidia and other CEOs impressed with Chinese models: We will soon ban you from…
For the past year, the pitch from Chinese AI labs has been simple. Take our models. They’re free, they’re open-weight, they’re nearly as good as what Anthropic and OpenAI sell, and they cost a fraction as much. American companies listened. Airbnb built its customer service chatbot on Alibaba’s Qwen. Cursor built Composer 2 on Moonshot’s…