TLDR:
Qwen model is popular and DeepSeek R1 seems good, and they’re based in China. There is investment because they think that’s where the future commerce will be (which to me is a little like the dot com bubble but, whatever). Lack of chips can be problematic.
Man hopefully they just mercilessly rake companies that don’t support Linux because of kernel level anticheat over the fires as well. We need more advocacy in this space I think (and honestly I’d like it if kernel level anticheat was banned from steam on account of security).