China Is Quietly Upstaging America with Its Open Models
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The Economist article claims China is upstaging America with its open AI models, but HN commenters express skepticism about China's progress, citing that Chinese models lag behind US models.
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billy99k
4 months ago
Upstaging? The deepseek models coming out of China are always behind models coming out of the US.
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