Simon Willison 7/20/2026

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?

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This article discusses Ben Thompson's proposal for US AI policy to counter Chinese models like Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max. It suggests a law making training data collection fair use and barring terms of service that forbid distillation (querying APIs). The piece highlights the hypocrisy of labs banning distillation while training on unlicensed data, and notes Xi Jinping's influence on Alibaba's open-source release. It also includes amusing details from the model's reasoning trace.

Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?

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