Stanford’s LLM class now relies on Chinese open models to cover frontier progress
ChengleiSi · x · 2026-07-26
A repost argues that Chinese open models are now indispensable in frontier LLM education.
- The author says a Stanford course on LLMs had to lean heavily on a mix of Chinese open models this year.
- The lecturer even joked that last year the class was almost entirely about DeepSeek, and without Chinese models the course would barely have worked.
- By contrast, the post says OpenAI has not published much public technical reporting after GPT-3, and Meta after LLaMA 3.
- The broader reflection is that, during seven years in school, the author could not recall any major foundational-course contribution from China — but now frontier AI courses may not function without it.
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