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So that's DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot (Kimi), Z.ai (GLM) and now MiniMax all turning out frontier open weight models in China

The ai-in-china tag on my blog is pretty busy this year! simonwillison.net/tags/ai-in-c...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Sounds pretty similar to @scott.hanselman.com 's classic "Dark Matter Developers" post:

www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-ma...
Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99%
In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is a currently-undetermined type of ...
www.hanselman.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Not also available on Geoffrey's blog (the original was an essay-length tweet): www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/10/24/c...
Code like a surgeon
www.geoffreylitt.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Personally I see it as

Entire computing industry: *increasingly depends on a small number of centralised tech platforms*

Centralised tech platform: *fucks up*

Entire computing industry: "Why would DNS do this to us?"

repeat ad infinitum
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM