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?
It's not that they can't, but why would they? It's a race to the bottom commodity wise, much smarter to build on top of the model layer like Legora and Lovable than make the models.
So the grand plan is to run US or Chinese models on hardware that you buy from US or China, and hope they'll keep selling us the hardware forever and giving away the models for free forever? Your moat is what? The prompts? The JavaScript for loop calling the model? Neat.
How many times will we do this? This line of thought is precisely why we can't build almost anything, and China can built almost everything. We could do X, but we're too smart - let's offload the actual work to China and we'll run our economy on IP and B2B deals.
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?
zipy124 · · focus · HN ↗
nananana9 · · focus · HN ↗
How many times will we do this? This line of thought is precisely why we can't build almost anything, and China can built almost everything. We could do X, but we're too smart - let's offload the actual work to China and we'll run our economy on IP and B2B deals.
esperent · · focus · HN ↗
... Built using expertise, machinery, and/or factories from Taiwan, the Netherlands, and South Korea.
The supply chain is far more complex and globalized than you're trying to make out here.