Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Regulatory capture will next ban open source and/or Chinese AI models.

  open sourceChina

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  Next in regulatory capture will be banning open source and/or Chinese models, mark my words

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  xAI

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  I can confirm @xAI was the only Western AI I was able to use when I was traveling in China

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities.

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  The West's biggest blindspot is repeatedly underestimating China's speed and capabilities

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Matic vacuum

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  matic vacuum (they gave me one so I have to disclose but it's GREAT, all the Roomba and Chinese ones suck)

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  Roomba

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  matic vacuum (they gave me one so I have to disclose but it's GREAT, all the Roomba and Chinese ones suck)

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  France and Germany will ban Tesla's full self-driving to protect their own car industry.

  self-driving carsChina

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  The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry that's being decimated by Chinese EVs and Tesla Allowing Tesla full self driving would make it so popular that it'd probably the end of their car industry Because no French or German car has self driving like Tesla, many customers would probably flock to Tesla

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Restricting US AI models does not work: China builds better ones and everyone switches to them.

  China

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  US: restricts US AI model because too dangerous China: builds better Chinese AI model Everyone: switches to Chinese AI model This is why restricting models probably doesn't work, it's much more preferable (for US) to have everyone on US AI models so at least they can monitor what everyone is doing

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Amap

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  But Amap is great! Especially since it can be used in English and I think it transliterates your searches to Chinese and the Chinese place names back to English

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  Google Maps

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  Google Maps essentially really doesn't work in China, the location of our hotel Aman in Beijing for example was completely wrong

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  Only the US and China have substantial startup activity left; the rest of the world cannot really do startups.

  startupsChina

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  I just realized the only 2 countries left with actual substantial startup activity now are literally only the US and China The rest of the world can't really do startups, doesn't have the funding, can't grow them and it's more like performative hobby projects for their governments Which might tell us where the future wealth will be concentrated in the world

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