Joke on OpenAI/Anthropic Demographics: Chinese Researchers Distilling Themselves

stablequan · x · 2026-08-01

Commenting on the AI industry's heavy reliance on distilling open-source models like DeepSeek, a user joked that considering the Chinese-to-American employee ratio at OpenAI and Anthropic, the process is essentially Chinese researchers distilling themselves. This highlights the significant representation of Chinese researchers in top AI labs and the prevalence of distillation techniques in current model training.

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