21 days ago
- The author delays building a local AI inference rig due to fast market changes and high hardware prices.
- China may restrict export of top AI models, including open-weight ones like Qwen and GLM-5.2, threatening Western access.
- Open-weight models from China enable affordable local and serverless AI; a ban could limit this access.
- Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models use sub-networks (experts) activated per token for efficiency.