[2606.15999] U.S. Policies Unintentionally Accelerated China's Open AI Ecosystems

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[Submitted on 14 Jun 2026]

Title:U.S. Policies Unintentionally Accelerated China's Open AI Ecosystems

Authors:Wang Jin, Nadav Kunievsky, Bowen Lou, Tianshu Sun, James Evans<br>View a PDF of the paper titled U.S. Policies Unintentionally Accelerated China's Open AI Ecosystems, by Wang Jin and 4 other authors

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Abstract:Over the past decade, U.S. policies have increasingly aimed to preserve artificial intelligence (AI) leadership by promoting domestic free-market policies while controlling global technological chokepoints, particularly advanced semiconductors and computational infrastructure. These measures raised the cost of Chinese AI development, but they also increased the strategic value of open and locally adaptable AI systems. Before raising export controls on high-performance chips, both the U.S. and China promoted policies that included support for open-source AI. During the period following major U.S. export-control shocks, China increasingly embedded open-source AI into national technology strategy through proposed ecosystem building, standards coordination, and resilience-oriented deployment. Moreover, Chinese developers increased engagement with open-source large language model repositories substantially more than U.S. developers did, consistent with a shift toward open infrastructure under geopolitical constraints. Subsequently, Chinese-origin open models diffused widely through open-source communities and scientific research. Even though such models remained largely absent from U.S. patent disclosures, American commercial entities use them in open-access research, suggesting their undermeasured importance within the foundation of U.S. commercial activity. These findings suggest that technological containment policies may unintentionally accelerate open innovation ecosystems as a competitive response, with implications for global leadership in both academic and commercial artificial intelligence.

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General Economics (econ.GN); Computers and Society (cs.CY)

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.15999

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