China's AI Labs Aim Beyond Cheap Models, Target AGI
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-18
Some believe that Chinese AI labs were expected to focus on cheap, decent "economy-class" models like DSV4-Flash, pouring resources into marketing and applications. However, Chinese labs also aspire to AGI and are placing big bets on technology. The quoted discussion notes that while Western labs might train dozens of models like Kimi v3 in parallel, Chinese labs, despite compute constraints, still try to shock the industry with pure cognitive capabilities.
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