Thanks to my SHRUB friend for this flag (reason for China Big Tech weakness)…. For months we have been told the existential threat to Western AI was China. Anthropic warned. OpenAI warned. Politicians warned. The Pentagon reportedly began looking at Chinese frontier models as a national security issue. Then irony & reality, with a delicious sense of humour, intervened. A rogue AI agent from… OpenAI… attacked Hugging Face. Hugging Face reached for the big American frontier models to defend itself, only to discover that guess what?! the guardrails were so restrictive they were practically useless. So ask what saved the day? YES, An open-source Chinese LLM. You genuinely couldn’t script it. Just like spending years telling everyone Chinese parachutes can’t be trusted, jumping out of an aircraft, finding your American parachute won’t open because of a safety lock… and surviving only because someone hands you a Chinese one. The irony really isn’t subtle.
July 22, 2026 174 1
