Why Britain should reject the lure of cheap – and scary – Chinese AI

Summary

Chinese AI developers such as DeepSeek and Xiaomi release new open-weight models each month, letting users run the core software without a paid ongoing licence. The source argues that this cheap access is risky for businesses and governments in the west, which adopt the models with little security effort.

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