Comment by eckr
4 hours ago
These benchmark numbers are insane. The days when China was 6 months behind are over? How are they doing this with so much less resources than the US??? I have so much respect for the researchers there
4 hours ago
These benchmark numbers are insane. The days when China was 6 months behind are over? How are they doing this with so much less resources than the US??? I have so much respect for the researchers there
I'm not sure where "so much less resources" comes from. Training the best model has nothing to do with having the most NVIDIA GPUs around. If that were true then xAI would have the best model. It comes down to the quality of data, research, and financial backing.
Mythos/Fable-class models have been around for at least 4 months internally in the US, and Kimi still isn't quite there, so I'd say the 6-months is still about right.
Initial testing for Mythos was in April 2026, right? Sure, they had the model internally before that when they were working on it, but the same is true for Moonshot and K3.
Backed by Alibaba, so not really resource constrained, but obviously much less than Ant/OAI. They did a spectacular job, congrats!
What makes you think they have less resources?
Fewer GPUs and much smaller teams.