> They were not at all concerned with some kind of hostile / AGI takeover scenario.
this doesn't sound belivable, or at least it seems off. competent ai engineers should have good intution about how agents work, and what happens when they don't do what you want them to do: https://www.forbes.com/sites/boazsobrado/2026/03/11/alibabas...
It's perfectly believable if you haven't drank the kool-aid. The entire US economy is now wraped around fraudsters selling a dream that will never materialise. Chinese LLM development is about building practical tools with a useful technology, in a sustainable manner. It's not that they don't believe agents can't do naughty things. It's that they understand this technology is not, and will never be, "AGI".