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by tyre 31 days ago
The Chinese models should stay close on a lag. They’re doing a ton of distillation that, realistically, I’m not sure the American frontiers can stop.
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US labs got tough on "adversarial" distillation [1]. I suspect that's one of several reasons why Chinese big labs are lagging again.

[0] US AI firms team up in bid to counter Chinese 'distillation' (Apr 7) https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/us-ai-...

Yeah I mean the US has gotten tough on, like, foreign interference in elections and cyber security, but if you have the Chinese state behind you—which they absolutely do and as an observer, obviously, they have to—no company can stop them.

Case in point: North Korea, with far, far fewer resources.