America builds the best AI models and rents them by the token. China gives its models away. Distillation, open weights, and four moves the West should make.

Original Reddit post

Every frontier model since 2023 has been American and Chinese labs trail by about seven months (Epoch). Meanwhile Chinese open models reached 41 percent of Hugging Face downloads, Qwen passed 700 million downloads with more derivatives than Google and Meta combined, and inference cost at fixed capability fell about 280 times in two years. The argument: capability is a leak rate, not a stock, because a model can be copied through its own API, and in that world second place given away free beats first place behind a meter. submitted by /u/Robert-Nogacki

Originally posted by u/Robert-Nogacki on r/ArtificialInteligence