Openness Gap Between US and China's LLM Ecosystems
viksit · x · 2026-07-19
A repost discussing why Chinese labs continuously produce new models. Key point: Chinese labs' advantage is not just open weights, but a more open ecosystem. Many training efforts involve interns, and they are more willing to share details. Consequently, the number of people who truly understand LLM training may be far larger in China than in the US, and growing. In contrast, US frontier labs are more closed; even top PhDs struggle to get internships and sufficient compute, and critical knowledge is held by a few. The author stresses this isn't a simple 'China vs US' opposition, but 'open science vs closed science'.
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