China May Lock Down Its Best AI Models

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Coming up next on AI Inside, Jarvis and I get into Beijing, weighing whether to wall off its best AI models from the rest of the world, like how the US has been doing it to China, Beijing. OpenAI offering the US government a 5 percent stake to smoothen things over in Washington, right at the time that we're now suddenly getting their next model, I think tomorrow, and Meta turning your public Instagram photos into fuel for its own new AI image generator, unless you happen to opt out. And so much more coming up on this episode of the AI Inside Podcast.
Hello, Internet, welcome to another episode of AI Inside, the show where we take a look at the AI that is layered throughout the world of technology. One of your hosts right here, Jason Howell, the other host right there, Jeff Jarvis. Good to see you, Jeff.

**Jeff Jarvis** (2:28)
Good to see you as ever, boss.

**Jason Howell** (2:30)
Yes, indeed. I feel like this is yet another one of those weeks where everybody's releasing big news right before showtime, and all sorts of things are swirling.
Anthropic continues to be in the news. China continues to be in the news.

**Jeff Jarvis** (2:46)
Big time.

**Jason Howell** (2:48)
OpenAI has some big stuff going on. I mean, this is just, yeah. This is just the normal, right? This is just normal.

**Jeff Jarvis** (2:54)
Yep.

**Jason Howell** (2:55)
I'm not surprised anymore every single week. No shortage.

**Jeff Jarvis** (2:59)
Yeah.

**Jason Howell** (3:00)
Well, it's good to see you. You have a big, let's see here. I'm going to hold off on that until later, actually.
Let's start with China. China might be, I think this is really interesting because we've had the last couple of years, we've had the US playing this game. I don't know if they'd call it a game. Sometimes it feels like a game to where they're saying, okay, we're doing all these great things over here in the United States of America, the great US of AI, but we don't want China to get it. So they've been closing things off and everything over the last couple of years. Now, it seems like China is doing that. I guess it's not surprising, but it seems like in the reverse with the open models and their open weight models, also some of their closed models, it seems like China is starting to tighten control over those models to make sure that, I guess, the United States and other countries outside of China don't get access to it.

**Jeff Jarvis** (3:58)
Yeah, this actually surprises me because China is talking about cutting off access to their own models. Just last week, I was saying that China can undercut the entire American AI industry by releasing its models for free and open weight. And that that's a tremendous strategic challenge to the US.
And so I thought that's what was going to happen. And now China is looking to the opposite of saying, well, ours are really valuable. And so we were, if you don't want to see your chips and your models, we're not going to let you see ours. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Jason Howell** (4:33)
Yeah, our feelings were hurt.