The New Competitive Playbook in the AI Industry
dustinvtran · x · 2026-07-10
A post poked fun at the AI industry's new playbook: US companies release closed-source models, Chinese companies distill them into open-source ones, and then US companies use those open-source models for RL to push back to closed-source performance. The quoted content also mentioned that Cognition released SWE-1.7, claiming it approaches the performance of top frontier models at a lower cost and can reach 1000 tok/s.
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