Why is Baidu so far behind at training models? It almost signed Hinton's team
dotey · x · 2026-10-29
A dev wonders how Baidu fell so far behind at training models — noting that in the DNNresearch bidding war, Baidu nearly landed Hinton, Ilya Sutskever, and Alex Krizhevsky. The post, amplified in Chinese AI circles, sparked discussion about the widening gap between Baidu and frontier labs.
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