Why can the Chinese build models and Europe cannot? The algorithms behind this stuff are not that complicated, are they? Is it the cost of energy? The illegality and difficulty of obtaining all the data in the world? Lack of capital to start moonshot labs? Lack of optimism?
The Chinese just seem to have an ability to get it done without anywhere near the GPUs of the US and Europe can buy these GPUs.
I think relying on the US and China for AI is probably not ideal? For example I think Qwen have not released the Omni models as open weights in the past, it’d be good to know if they’re doing this here?
andy_ppp · · focus · HN ↗
The Chinese just seem to have an ability to get it done without anywhere near the GPUs of the US and Europe can buy these GPUs.
I think relying on the US and China for AI is probably not ideal? For example I think Qwen have not released the Omni models as open weights in the past, it’d be good to know if they’re doing this here?
EagnaIonat · · focus · HN ↗
Well there is Mistral. The EU is ahead on specialised models than general purpose LLMs.
There is.
- Flux3
- Kyutai (Open source AI lab)
- H Company
- LightOn
- AMD Silo (Finland)
- OpenEuroLLM and EuroLLM
There is probably more, but that's off the top of my head.
miohtama · · focus · HN ↗
EagnaIonat · · focus · HN ↗
Black Forest Labs for example has a $4B valuation with half a billion raised so far.
miohtama · · focus · HN ↗
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