Chinese model progress driven by pretraining, not distillation, podcaster consensus argues
vista8 · x · 2026-08-27
Synthesizing podcast views, the author argues that distilling foreign models only accelerated high-quality data collection for Chinese models; their current level rests on solid pretraining, new architectures, and decent post-training, helped by China's talent density. Domestic GPUs at scale for inference plus abundant power push cost-effectiveness up, though frontier exploratory research still favors the US.
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