One of his "biggest fears," according to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, is the "AI problem" with Chinese models that American companies should be aware of.
One of his "biggest fears" for the future of AI, according to Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt, is that Chinese open-source AI models may become dominant worldwide. Schmidt expressed concern that most nations may embrace Chinese AI models since they are free, while US models are still closed and expensive, in an interview with the Moonshots podcast that was released this week. This leads to an odd situation where the largest models in China are open source but the largest models in the US are closed source. Naturally, the geopolitical problem there is that closed-source models are not free, while open-source models are. Schmidt claims that this economic disparity may have significant worldwide ramifications. Therefore, he said, the great majority of governments and nations lacking the wealth of the West would eventually standardize on Chinese patterns, not because they are superior but rather because they are free. While closed source systems are proprietary and frequently more secure but less accessible, open source AI models enable anybody to access, alter, and share the technology.