Open frontier models now appear to depend on China, a post argues
emollick · x · 2026-07-21
A response to Emad Mostaque's post argues that frontier open-weights models now depend heavily on China.
The commenter says:
- there are no frontier open-weights models outside China
- the US has little incentive to fund them, and the EU lacks appetite
- current non-Chinese models are still only mid-tier
The post cites Kimi K3 and GLM-5.2 as examples of the gap at the frontier.
Related event: Moonshot Releases 2.8T Open-Weights Model Kimi K3(14 posts)→
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