“China hasn’t made a better LLM than OpenAI” does not imply “China can’t make a better LLM despite having more money”. China isn’t allocating all their money into this. If it’s the case that China set a much bigger budget to developing LLMs than OpenAI had, and failed because OpenAI has better people, that would support your point about large resource mismatches not being able to overcome small intelligence gaps.
“China hasn’t made a better LLM than OpenAI” does not imply “China can’t make a better LLM despite having more money”. China isn’t allocating all their money into this. If it’s the case that China set a much bigger budget to developing LLMs than OpenAI had, and failed because OpenAI has better people, that would support your point about large resource mismatches not being able to overcome small intelligence gaps.