Comment by sharadov
7 days ago
What makes the Chinese models this good? I don't believe it's distillation alone.
This from OpenAi's Head of Strategic Futures "Some observations on Kimi: It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that"
https://x.com/deanwball/status/2078133895766114412
China's strategy of spending billions on training these models and open sourcing these models away is strategic - they want to kill the US LLM industry at any cost.
To win on the AI front by any means necessary.
> China's strategy of spending billions on training these models and open sourcing these models away is strategic - they want to kill the US LLM industry at any cost.
Why is it when Anthropic and OpenAI spend billions trying to beat each other it is competition, but when the Chinese companies do it then it is trying to kill the US LLM industry at any cost.
The US federal government spends billions in subsidies via the US Chip Act, and bans chip sales to China to support US companies.
But the implication is that somehow Chinese competition is illegitimate because "strategic".
Jingoism is the answer I believe.
I am not defending the US LLM industry or the government, all I am saying is it's similar to an arms race. I did not suggest anywhere that what China is doing is illegitimate. China has state supported capitalism, and they will do whatever it takes to prop up the AI industry. Anthropic and OpenAI want the same protections.
>What makes the Chinese models this good?
Why wouldn't it be? China is pumping out AI research and researchers at a staggering pace and there is no inherent reason why western models should be better