alt Hacker News> Spitballing random pr pieces from companies about to IPO is not helpful to anyone, fyi.
You can just use logic to come to the same conclusion. The Chinese labs have a fraction of compute and data. The simplest explanation is distillation.
> Spitballing random pr pieces from companies about to IPO is not helpful to anyone, fyi.
You can just use logic to come to the same conclusion. The Chinese labs have a fraction of compute and data. The simplest explanation is distillation.
DeepSeek R1 and DeepSeekMath were groundbreaking models which were substantially stronger than any models available for distillation at the time they were developed. The Chinese labs have advantages as well despite the lack of compute, too.