This is moronic and entirely divorced from the facts. Look at key players in the Chinese LLM space like Deepseek: it’s a tiny team of less than 200 people, building models that rival US tech firms with thousands. They make breakthroughs by pushing research first and intensive planning, rather than brute force. These are immensely innovative and creative teams with a great approach to R&D and engineering above all else
This wouldn’t really negate what I’m talking about in terms of their organizational advantages or the argument I’m making about them not just “throwing people” at the problem. But also, I don’t see any evidence that this is true; it seems their hiring strategy is to grab researchers that recently graduated from top Chinese universities as their talent
As far as I understand it is decently true, but not to the extent that they would be incapable of doing what they’re achieving. Either way you’re right, it doesn’t refute your claims in any way - those researchers are still doing work in China for Chinese companies, regardless of where they got their education.
This is moronic and entirely divorced from the facts. Look at key players in the Chinese LLM space like Deepseek: it’s a tiny team of less than 200 people, building models that rival US tech firms with thousands. They make breakthroughs by pushing research first and intensive planning, rather than brute force. These are immensely innovative and creative teams with a great approach to R&D and engineering above all else
Well…those engineers were all training in the USA at MIT, Stanford, etc. but got the boot in 2025.
This wouldn’t really negate what I’m talking about in terms of their organizational advantages or the argument I’m making about them not just “throwing people” at the problem. But also, I don’t see any evidence that this is true; it seems their hiring strategy is to grab researchers that recently graduated from top Chinese universities as their talent
As far as I understand it is decently true, but not to the extent that they would be incapable of doing what they’re achieving. Either way you’re right, it doesn’t refute your claims in any way - those researchers are still doing work in China for Chinese companies, regardless of where they got their education.