Who is Training Western Models?
willccbb · x · 2026-07-19
The author addresses the elephant in the room: if not companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, who exactly is training Western models?
The core argument is that the world's largest companies are building custom hardware for AI, often driving ecosystems through a "free software for hardware sales" model. While critics argue "big companies are slow and clumsy," the author believes this trend cannot be ignored.
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