Researcher argues catching up to frontier AI costs less than proposed compute budgets
eliebakouch · x · 2026-09-14
Discussing model-building plans, eliebakouch agrees compute is the most important part of an ambitious initiative but argues the cost of catching up to the frontier is overestimated: no Chinese lab has that level of funding, and even Anthropic and OpenAI have raised less in total.
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