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The AI Race Just Got Awkward

412 points · 463 comments · allisdust

  1. slowin · · focus · HN ↗
    I'm also grateful to the Chinese labs for providing workarounds for the walled gardens that the US based AI companies are attempting to create.

    Does anyone know if there are any distillation datasets available? I'd love to see these distributed on BitTorrent. I think it's critical that AI be democratized and not isolated in the hands of a few private companies.

    1. 10xDev · · focus · HN ↗
      An authoritarian regime is not your friend and will pullback the moment their own models become highly capable.
      1. horsawlarway · · focus · HN ↗
        Yes, we already discussed the US.
        1. Avicebron · · focus · HN ↗
          It's crazy how articles like this get spawn-camped by people like this trying to throw this zinger in. Both AI conpanies in the US and the chinese companies with ccp desks in the corner can be bad. The good path forward is locally hosted AI models, that's known.
          1. horsawlarway · · focus · HN ↗
            Right, which is why I'm happy to see China continue to innovate in the open, and increasingly wary of the US stance given articles like

            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anthropic.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;glm-5-3-and-the-spread-of-advanced-cyber-capabilities" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anthropic.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;glm-5-3-and-the-spread-of...

            It&#x27;s VERY clear that the US companies are trying to push for regulation to kill open models and open weights. I see this as much more hostile and authoritarian response than what we&#x27;re seeing come out of China right now.

            So is China going to always publish in the open? No clue. But right now they&#x27;re modeling much better behavior.

            1. jacquesm · · focus · HN ↗
              What&#x27;s on my drives stays on my drives.
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