What happens once China stops providing free, OSS models?

Will you just use the "old" ones? Since no solo developer or small company could have the compute to train something on their own that can compete with the commercial frontier ones.

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2026-10-31 20:26 · r/StableDiffusion
What happens once China stops providing free, OSS models?

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