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Tuhin Srivastava

executiveCredibility: 67%

Why this score? CEO of Baseten, an inference hosting provider; informed industry observer of open-model adoption, with commercial interest in open-weights usage.

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The U.S. is doubling down on restricting sales of chips to China and purchases from China, but models like Qwen 3 that are state-of-the-art and open […] will undoubtedly be used domestically. It reflects the reality that businesses are both building their own tools [as well as] buying off the shelf via closed-model companies like Anthropic and OpenAI.✓

— Tuhin Srivastava · Apr 28, 2025
Context: Confirmed by mid-2026: CNBC reported Western companies increasingly adopting Chinese open-weight models on cost grounds, and OpenRouter token-traffic data showed GLM-5.2 usage climbing faster post-launch than any predecessor — Chinese open models are in production US use at scale.