China copies American AI breakthroughs but can't make them 10x better

Having said that, again, at least so far, up until like this week, you just say that like whatever the American big labs do, like China figures out a way to do it, in open source form at a point. But they haven't been able to figure out a way to do it 10x better because what they're doing is letting American labs invest and then just distilling the models to some degree. So I think it's more that there is this there is this distillation and so you And and there's infrastructure optimization and a bunch of stuff Yeah. There's some for for sure distillation, so there's this thing distillation where you basically train the next model on the answers of of the previous model, and and and I think for sure China is is doing some of that, and there there's a there's a lens on that that says of course that's unfair because you're basically piggybacking on top of work other people have done. You know, look, you know, having said that, you know, it's a little bit like, well, okay, there's a fair amount of distillation happening in The US also. Yeah. Right? Because distillation, all you need is just be able to ask another AI questions and train on the answers. And then of course, the AI's themselves are distillations of other content.