[data-ottawa]

I don’t know how anyone can look at the innovation going on at DeepSeek and come to the conclusion that China can only copy.

Distillation and copying are how they’ve bootstrapped their models, but that feels not so different than Anthropic and Meta torrenting millions of pirated books.

The Chinese labs are solving problems for a different set of constraints.

[nerdyadventurer]

Problem is even today many people still have this colonial mindset, that some are superior in every aspect than others, which is a shame. Many of the current geopolitical problems stem from this.