Comment by XorNot

The hand wringing over whether internationally located AI labs are "stealing" output from American ones is the funniest thing in a while.

It's international politics with people talking about AI success as a matter of national strategic advantage and survival. So at best "this was built off our work" mostly tells you that apparently you've got months of advantage when a new model drops before it can be cloned. That's certainly some sort of advantage, sure hope it represents a consistent ability to stay ahead and causes people to redouble their efforts.

Or...of course none of these companies are worth what they say, but the advantage is also not really that great, and a whole lot of people are just really worried about their stock payouts.