Entrepreneurs surgically realign Chinese open-weight models for Western businesses concerned about censorship and security.
Highly capable, low-cost Chinese open-weight models see widespread adoption, yet Western enterprises fear censorship, cybersecurity risks, and geopolitical bias.
Startups see business opportunities in editing the models to strip state propaganda and security flaws for Western markets.
In his book “Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” Paris Marx profiles local communities resisting the growing demand for water for data centers.
After ChatGPT was released in November 2022, the tech industry was quick to herald the chatbot as the marker of a new wave of technological progress.
As companies pushed to create more powerful AI models, the water demand of their ambitions took a while to become clear.
As Meta and OpenAI deploy personal AI agents like Muse and Dots worldwide, experts warn that network strain, language barriers, and Western bias could leave the Global South behind.
Big Tech’s newest personal agents — Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s Dots — promise to book tables at restaurants, buy groceries, and carry out other types of digital grunt work for users.
Muse has been downloaded 9 million times in the U.S.
