AI: Due to Chinese competition: Zuckerberg calls for more relaxed AI regulation
In recent years, Chinese startups have repeatedly made headlines internationally with their AI models. The Meta boss is now making demands in order to become competitive.
Berlin. Due to growing pressure from cheap competition from China, Mark Zuckerberg has called for a relaxation of US regulations on artificial intelligence (AI). Developers from the People's Republic would have to meet fewer requirements in terms of the data used to train an AI, said the head of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, on Monday.
The government in Washington must remove these hurdles so that affordable US AI can become competitive. In recent years, Chinese startups such as DeepSeek or Moonshot have repeatedly made headlines internationally with their AI models. They are technologically on par with Western products, but cost only a fraction. The providers achieve this, among other things, by using open source and open weight.
With open source, the program code of a software is freely accessible and modifiable. Examples of this include the Firefox browser and the Linux operating system. With open-weight models, the training data of an AI can be freely downloaded. According to previous statements from insiders, US President Donald Trump wants to exempt open-weight AI from the self-commitment to safety tests.
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