What are Chinese AI labs doing differently to match US labs at a fraction of the cost?
budfischer · reddit · 2026-09-27
The poster asks why Chinese AI labs keep getting better while spending a fraction of what US labs do: better efficiency, better post-training, or smarter use of open research?
They also note a recent observation — Chinese labs buying up large amounts of specialized training datasets from US data annotation companies — calling it worrying but unlikely to be the whole explanation. The post itself is a question; the discussion lives in the comments.
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