The geopolitical angle of the AI race is only going to keep accelerating. More domestic talent travel restrictions from the Chinese government. I expect more and more things like this, AI is getting embedded in the core of existing power structures. www.bloomberg.com/news/arti…
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- China now requires government approval for overseas travel by top AI researchers at private firms including Alibaba and DeepSeek.
- Travel restrictions were quietly applied to some DeepSeek executives in December 2025 before expanding to the broader private AI sector.
- Beijing's extension of talent controls into private firms reflects how strategically sensitive it considers frontier AI development.
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Some ideas for what comes next, May 2026 Gemini Flash 3.5, Mythos, open-closed balance, America's open-source surge, emerging power struggles and more. www.interconnects.ai/p/some-ideas...
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Latest open artifacts (#21): Open model bonanza! Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, MiMo 2.5, GLM-5.1 & others. On CAISI's V4 assessment. An eventful month with one flagship release after another www.interconnects.ai/p/latest-ope...
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- DeepSeek-V4-Flash ranked best-in-class for local agentic coding tasks across the full May open-model cohort benchmarked by Lambert.
- Poolside's Laguna XS.2, a 33B MoE model under Apache 2.0, is the strongest open-weight release at its size class in this cohort.
- The open-to-closed capability gap stands at 3-7 months and has been narrowing since DeepSeek R1 launched, per CASI data.
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Very useful post from @jjding99 on Anthropic's China Dogma chinai.substack.com/p/anthropics...
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