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It’s obvious? They still hate us and hope we die… at least every movement they make seems like that.

I kid. I’m all for meta releasing more open weight models.

I mean… I’m also 1000% certain that China is going to undercut whatever they can do if even not a technology reason but a legal reason. I’ve seen some wild stuff posted that has been made with Minimax… things a US company could never allow to happen.

>wild stuff posted that has been made with Minimax… things a US company could never allow to happen.

Such as?

Minimax has NO filters of any kind, and it's roughly Veo/Sora-quality.

You can generate a video of just about any thought in your head at all.

IP holders and politicians will not like that.

Granted, human artists have always been capable of this. It's just never been worth it to bring most ideas into fruition. Now there's minimal cost to do so.

Early Sora, Grok Imagine, and Seedance 2.0 had few filters. Disney, Nintendo, et al. eventually stopped them all from using their IP, which made the appeal fade for a lot of users.

Kling and Nano Banana can still generate IP oddly enough.