AI models from Chinese laboratories are on par with the leading systems from Silicon Valley. However, Chinese models are open-source and created at a fraction of the expense and time. They are also favoured by business users, which poses a significant challenge to the valuations of companies like OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT. OpenAI's latest funding round valued the company at over $500 billion, which is also the amount needed for the development of the Stargate project. In contrast, the newest of