Comment Re:Well it was inevitable (Score 3, Interesting) 102
They are willing to build data centers at scale with no regard for the environment or citizen's opinions on the matter, subsidize the hardware, reverse engineer the models, and distill the training done in the US. The only thing holding the US back is itself. We honestly shouldn't compete, because the playing field is far from level. Let them spend the money and destroy their resources, and we'll distill THEIR models.
LOL. We bet the farm on this.
Also, we don't have to distill their models. Their models are open-source, open weights.
They did jump ahead a few times and we did use their techniques and learnings to jump past them in the next round.