Deepseek trained their v3 model for $6M. That’s the AI equivalent of building it in a cave with a pile of scraps. There’s no longer any reasonable way to stop China from developing frontier models.

I noticed that the article said that open source models were about a year behind the top closed source models. And personally, I would use the open source models anyway, because I am an open source maxi. If I can use open source to get a job done, I will use open source. No questions asked.

Surprised imperialists hone in on new frontiers to subjugate?

this article that is © 2024 TIME USA, LLC, says :

“They’re (Chinese) clearly getting much better use out of the hardware because of better software,” says Ritwik Gupta, the author of the research, who also advises the Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit.

Down voting reality doesn’t make it go away.