[dwa3592]

In the end its really VC money (US) versus State resources (China). In my personal opinion, building reliable LLMs is kind of a fundamental science problem which if done right has the potential to help everyone regardless of the background, so it should definitely be funded by states resources (taxes etc), which is what China is doing. In them doing so, the rest of the world also benefits, I think its a net win.

[Aboutplants]

I always see comments like this, alluding to how China (the government) provides so much more assistance to industry than the US does but in reality that is not really that true. The government spend in the US on AI is much greater than government spend on AI from China

[dwa3592]

In absolute terms, you are absolutely right but relatively i don't think so. if we were to compute private money divided by state resources for AI, i think china might have more share than the US. also, even if government spend in the US on AI is so high, shouldn't we get then some models for free? maybe thinking machines is doing that, but its funded privately by a16z.