alt Hacker News> Just because America is doing bad things doesn't mean China is good, or vice versa.
Of course not. When it comes to SOTA LLMs you have the choice between two bad options. For many, choosing the Chinese option is just choosing the lesser of two evils (and it's much cheaper).
Why people always dismiss the European option?
Mistral is right here, their models are in-between the cheap to run Chinese models and top of the line performances of US frontier models.