Chinese AI labs congratulate each other's releases while American labs 'but-actually' one another
evijit · x · 2026-10-07
Reacting to the "best Western open model" buzz around Mistral's release, evijit observes a cultural gap: Chinese labs tend to congratulate each other and act like one "team," while Americans habitually nitpick each other's releases. He argues open-model diffusion and sovereignty are good things, and predicts cool builds will emerge from the open ecosystem regardless.
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