US-China AI situation about to get more complicated regarding open source models and secrets.

US-China AI situation about to get more complicated regarding open source models and secrets. | this whole thing I think is about to get more complicated.

this whole thing I think is about to get more complicated.

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Adverse (6)

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  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1GLT9_tag0",
  "mode": "PREDICTION",
  "role": "Guest-VC",
  "caveats": "Context: Chinese government cracking down on US academia using Chinese open source models post Meta Manis acquisition",
  "context": "the Chinese government is cracking down on the uh the Americas or US academia's use of Chinese open source models like they uh particularly uh post the Meta Manis acquisition, they're like very very worried about actually secrets going this way. So kind of the opposite of what we've been worried about which they you know like our whole open source uh kind of work is based on the Chinese models since there haven't been as many US open source models. So that's this whole thing I think is about to get more complicated.",
  "to_year": 2027,
  "verbatim": "this whole thing I think is about to get more complicated.",
  "conv_cues": "about to get",
  "direction": "HAPPEN",
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  "timeframe": "near-term",
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      "label": "BIS / Commerce final rule or update on AI chip export controls in H1 2026",
      "source": "https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2026/01/administration-policies-on-advanced-ai-chips-codified",
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      "label": "Nvidia became the world's first $5 trillion company (late 2025), operating a near-monopoly on advanced AI chips.",
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      "label": "Nvidia Data Center revenue +66% YoY, contributing ~90% of $57B fiscal Q3 revenue; >$4.5T market cap entirely underpinned by AI silicon.",
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      "label": "Nvidia's Arizona-based TSMC factory successfully fabricated cutting-edge semiconductors on US soil for first time in decades (October 2025).",
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      "label": "Nvidia quadrupled chip production output while only doubling human headcount — achieved by deploying AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) a",
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      "label": "Chip Security Act (or equivalent location-tracking legislation) passes US House",
      "source": "https://bisi.org.uk/reports/ai-chip-smuggling-the-limits-of-us-export-controls",
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