It started with deepseek v3, which rendered the Llama 4 already behind in benchmarks. Adding insult to injury was the "unknown Chinese company with 5..5 million training budget"
Engineers are moving frantically to dissect deepsek and copy anything a...
the US gov can always cut off US companies from using the services of (much cheaper and better) Chinese AI companies. in fact I would be surprised if they didn’t at some point.
This is absolutely what will happen. I think it is advantageous that they don’t need to worry about any commercialization and also aren’t rushing to scale up like the US is, even more so now with project Stargate. I think there might be some benefits eventually from AI, but it makes sense to me to let it cook a little longer and be more methodical then powering up 3 mile island and filling it with GPUs
the US gov can always cut off US companies from using the services of (much cheaper and better) Chinese AI companies. in fact I would be surprised if they didn’t at some point.
This is absolutely what will happen. I think it is advantageous that they don’t need to worry about any commercialization and also aren’t rushing to scale up like the US is, even more so now with project Stargate. I think there might be some benefits eventually from AI, but it makes sense to me to let it cook a little longer and be more methodical then powering up 3 mile island and filling it with GPUs
Alibaba has been selling API access for their LLM for a while now. I don’t know how popular it is though. https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/solutions/generative-ai/build?_p_lc=1