Article title: “The US is winning the AI Race”

Article content: “The US are capitalizing on AI the best”

A lot of assumptions there that no one can actually verify as true right now. If commercialization into rent-seeking SaaS landscapes is the endgame, then yeah, the US is winning the AI race. If individualization, local LLMs, and consumer hardware are the endgame, China is winning the AI race. If it’s something entirely different - if LLMs are the wall and research is what grants the next breakthrough, or if compute and memory requirements take a dive, or whatever; then we have no idea who’s winning the race because that stuff is mostly happening behind closed doors.

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SubiculumCode an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That seems like a lot of rationalization to me. China is pursuing these because they cannot compete on the frontier. Yes, there is a possibility that all that compute is not needed, but it is a rather remote possibility, and there is no doubt that, given the choice, China would be pursuing frontier model building with closed, propietary-only offerings.

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cyberge99 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

Forgive me if this is a naive assumption, but wouldn’t large language models be fundamentally different for a language that is largely symbols? Again, my understanding of Mandarin is limited if it exists at all.

	▲	doph 33 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		All tokens are symbols. All of the frontier models speak Mandarin.

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akrylov an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In a capitalist society it's all about bottom line. OpenAI and Antropic, Amazon, Nvidia winning bit time. And I would have preferred it to be only about money, but US deep state certainly will capitalize on it like on US dollar (sanctions) and cloud infra (Cloud Act).

	▲	giancarlostoro an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> US deep state Strange reading that on HN and realizing I'm not on Facebook

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aerodexis an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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