HOW CHINA'S TECH WILL BE INDISPENSIBLE FOR THE WORLD...

More on China and its breathtaking scale and speed, and intelligence, of development.
President Xi knows he is riding a tiger: using the market to develop infrastructure will INEVITABLY create an elite capitalist class that has to be controlled. This is the 21st century equivalent of the Dictatorship of the Proletariet.
Those who say that China is 'capitalist' have no idea of what the CCP with its hundreds of millions of members is undertaking: theirs is, literally, a civilisation mission for the whole of the world NOT by military intervention but by technology and development throught the Belt and Road initiative. China is making itself indispensible to the world.


IT IS OUR ONLY HOPE.

'.... While Silicon Valley’s leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic build largely closed, proprietary systems, Alibaba is giving away the keys to the kingdom. Alibaba reports that the open-source Qwen ecosystem now includes 300+ released models, 600M+ cumulative downloads, and 170K+ derivativesacross major hosting platforms. Alibaba is making Qwen the default starting block for a generation of Chinese AI developers and startups.

The logic is straight out of Google’s Android playbook. Why spend billions developing a foundation model from scratch when a world-class, free, and open-source alternative from Alibaba exists? This approach dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for AI innovation, but in doing so, it subtly locks the resulting ecosystem onto Alibaba’s rails. Every startup building on Qwen, every university experimenting with it, and every enterprise fine-tuning it becomes a potential customer for Alibaba’s other services. This isn’t just about technological benevolence; it’s about cultivating a vast, dependent ecosystem that it can later monetize. As GAM Investment Management’s Jian Shi Cortesi noted, “Alibaba is increasingly viewed more as an AI/cloud infrastructure player than strictly an e-commerce name.” This perception shift is the entire point.......The invisible hand guiding this entire endeavor is, of course, Beijing. The national drive for technological self-sufficiency provides both the political air cover and the captive market for such a colossal undertaking. Chinese state-owned enterprises and private companies alike are being pushed, both by policy and by geopolitical prudence, to onshore their AI development. Alibaba is positioning its cloud as the safest, most patriotic, and increasingly, the most powerful place to do it.'




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