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Ben Thompson argues that the alarm over Chinese models like Kimi K3 is overblown as an economic matter. Tokens are the commodity, and in commodity markets everyone sells the same thing at the same price; what the frontier labs actually sell is intelligence, and that remains scarce. He does take the real risks seriously, distillation and cybersecurity among them, and his prescription is policy rather than panic: loosen the restrictions that keep frontier models out of cybersecurity work, and remove the contractual barriers that keep American open-weight developers from competing fairly with Chinese alternatives.
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"Ben Thompson on why the panic over Chinese AI models is economically overblown: frontier labs are not selling commodity tokens, they are selling intelligence."
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