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c0rruptbytes • yesterday at 10:39 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

LLMs could’ve been developed a lot slower without capsizing the entire supply chain and been seen a lot more positively, China is building a lot of good AI with a minuscule of the compute power and it’s fine

there was never a need to rush other than for capitals self interest to control

if frontier labs wanna pace the frontier, they should be honest and return the compute back to the people


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letmevoteplease • yesterday at 11:02 PM

China is building good AI by distilling American models. I think that's a great thing, but Chinese progress is currently dependent on American progress, because China lacks the compute to train the largest models (as stated by DeepSeek's founder[1])

[1] https://sumsec.me/2026/liang-wenfeng-investor-meeting-transc...

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