tszzl: governments prefer Chinese OSS models over mercurial US API exports
tszzl · x · 2026-11-13
Notable AI researcher tszzl observes that many governments count on the stability of running Chinese open-source models rather than the potentially mercurial export of American model inference via API. He adds he doesn't think model distillation is good at all, framing it as an observation rather than a recommendation.
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