Other motive could be to undermine western dominance in chip design. You give away free a good enough thing that is competing with your competitor's moat. If th

Other motive could be to undermine western dominance in chip design. You give away free a good enough thing that is competing with your competitor's moat. If the gap is not that significant this can ruin the business for your competitor. You can see the same with Apple and all big tech funding OpenStreetMap for example vs Google Maps. Even decreasing income for the competitor is worth it strategically. Or Satya Nadella saying in an interview that if ChatGPT just makes Google's costs higher for search is a big win for Microsoft.