Canada would be reluctant. So would Europe, South Asia and so forth. The biggest hurdle for China is the CCP. It is one thing to use physical products from China but relying on the CCP for knowledge may be a step too far for many nations.

> They are still behind in semiconductors, maybe 10 or 20 years

i dont believe they're as behind as many analysis deems. In fact, making it illegal to export western chips to china only serves to cause the mother of all inventions, necessity, to pressure harder and make it work.

> China's biggest challenge ATM is that they do not yet economically produce the GPUs and RAM needed to train and use big models. They are still behind in semiconductors, maybe 10 or 20 years (they can make fast chips, they can make cheap chips, they can't yet make fast cheap chips).

You don't need the most efficient chips to train LLMs. those much slower chips (e.g. those made by Huawei) will probably take longer for training and they waste more electricity and space. but so what?

Like I've said before, this isn't a physical good that is being sold. LLM is knowledge and many governments and people are going to be concerned with how and who is packaging it. Using LLMs created by China will mean certain events in history will be omitted (which will not be exclusive to China). How the LLM responds will be dictated by the LLM training and so forth.

LLMs will become the ultimate propaganda tool (if they aren't already), and I don't see why governments wouldn't want to have full control over them.