What makes the Chinese models this good? I don't believe it's distillation alone.
This from OpenAi's Head of Strategic Futures
"Some observations on Kimi:
It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that"
China's strategy of spending billions on training these models and open sourcing these models away is strategic - they want to kill the US LLM industry at any cost.
This from OpenAi's Head of Strategic Futures "Some observations on Kimi: It's a very good model! I don't think its performance can be explained away by distillation or anything like that"
https://x.com/deanwball/status/2078133895766114412
China's strategy of spending billions on training these models and open sourcing these models away is strategic - they want to kill the US LLM industry at any cost.
To win on the AI front by any means necessary.