Some nerd had a vision and he built the thing.
He happened to live in China.

I find it interesting that everyone is just assuming that the Chinese government is responsible, rather than this being a chaos theory simulation. The affect on the market was fully intended? Hm yeah was it though? If this exact same story had originated from any other country would be interpret it in the same way? I'd say that's an impossibility. Our conclusions are tainted by propaganda.

Like seriously though this is a gift to the world... a cheap open-source model that could disrupt the AI conclave, and we still find a way to spin it and parrot the "China bad" paradigm. I think if any of these theories had merit there's no way in hell it would be open source. They certainly wouldn't brag about how cheap it is if they need to hide forbidden tech while vampire attacking the system for profit. Make it make sense.