Comment by vrganj
20 hours ago
It's about playing to two different audiences.
The CCP requires extensive certification for new major releases, to make sure a model doesn't do anything they don't want it to.
To get around this, Chinese labs only bump versions when they have to and usually claim it's a minor update.
Then on the other side, they're obviously trying to market to the tech crowd...
Source?
Everything in China is strictly regulated but loosely enforced. Just take that as a grain of salt
I happen to live in China now and lots of my friends work in frontier labs. I don't now there's a restriction for major updates of LLMs.
Western media doesn't have correct informtion source about China. This is because Western favors Web ecosystem and most inforamtion live in the Web, but in China everyone use Apps.
Drum Tower podcast (from the Economist, paywalled) about Chinese AI.
Would highly recommend it, it's IMO the only serious Western reporting about China.
> the only serious Western reporting about China.
as good as Gordon Chang.
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