alt Hacker NewsThe irony is the Chinese are being very democratic with their models, while the USA tries to do central control.
Glad to see centralized control fail on the grandest scale. Maybe we can learn a thing or two.
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I'm reminded of space race, where US built centralized planning, while USSR did competition between construction buros
> Chinese are being very democratic with their models
They can afford to, assuming they distilled Fable, because that reduces their pre-training costs, doesn't it?
> The irony is the Chinese are being
There's no irony. The problem is these generalizations and labelling that's hurting everyone. It's the wrong way to view China and maybe many other places.
Just like the definition of AI, the definition of democratic or not evolved long ago.
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What you're seeing is the distilled (no pun intended) result of realpolitik at play. China's labs aren't as open as they are out of altruism, but rather to capitalize and undercut the monopoly held by U.S. competitors.