Just want to register that I agree that—regardless of US GPU superiority right now—the US AI superiority is pretty small, and decreasing. Yi-Large beats a bunch of GPT-4 versions—even in English—on lmsys; it scores just above stuff like Gemini. Their open source releases like DeepSeekV2 look like ~Llama 3 70b level. And so on and so forth.
Maybe whatever OpenAI is training now will destroy whatever China has, and establish OpenAI as firmly in the lead.… or maybe not. Yi says they’re training their next model as well, so it isn’t like they’ve stopped doing things.
I think some chunk of “China is so far behind” is fueled by the desire to be able to stop US labs while not just letting China catch up, but that is what it would actually do.
Just want to register that I agree that—regardless of US GPU superiority right now—the US AI superiority is pretty small, and decreasing. Yi-Large beats a bunch of GPT-4 versions—even in English—on lmsys; it scores just above stuff like Gemini. Their open source releases like DeepSeekV2 look like ~Llama 3 70b level. And so on and so forth.
Maybe whatever OpenAI is training now will destroy whatever China has, and establish OpenAI as firmly in the lead.… or maybe not. Yi says they’re training their next model as well, so it isn’t like they’ve stopped doing things.
I think some chunk of “China is so far behind” is fueled by the desire to be able to stop US labs while not just letting China catch up, but that is what it would actually do.