I have been very impressed with the Qwen3 series. I'm still evaluating them, and I generally take LLM benchmarks with a huge grain of salt, but their MoE models in particular seem to offer a lot of bang for the compute. But what makes you so sure they will take the lead?
Deepseek, Qwen, GLM (quite good). All being open and available for local use definitely puts them ahead in that space, which means a lot of the tinkerers and younger people learning to do things like train and fine-tune are getting good with Chinese models and I do think getting in early like that is a great way to gain mindshare in a space. Look at Apple or Microsoft doing everything they could early on to get their machines and software into schools as early as possible.
Isn't this an indication they are already in the lead? They currently have the best model that beats everyone on all quantitative metrics? Are you implying that the US has a better model somewhere?
They aren't in the lead. They are very close behind, but that's not hard given the quantity of freely published papers. They keep proving they can train models competitive with US models, but, only months after the fact. And at least some of the Chinese models were trained via distillation from US models. Probably not at Alibaba but it seems at least some models were.
The USA of course. Isn't it obvious? What other country is more Free and great? None. Why does this even need to be asked?
China is full of people who want communism to dominate the world with totalitarian control so no one wants China to dominate anything at all because they are bad...
The USA is being led by a criminal pedo atm. There is military in the streets and SA-like, masked thugs are kidnapping people. Billionaires sit behind the wheels to profit from all those developments. Many of them are somehow related to AI. You can image what that will be/is used (see Palantir).
The whole country is going down the drain right now. There is nothing about it, sane people outside the Republican bubble would consider "freedom".
I chose to believe that too until Trump got elected for the first time.
Now I just assume, a significant amount of US citizens have lost their minds and since this part tends to be quite loud about their madness, chances are much higher if you assume madness first.
Well, we have a naming issue (Hetzner also has Hetzner Cloud, it looks people still equal cloud with the three biggest public cloud providers).
In any case, in order for this to happen, someone would have to collect reliable data (not all big cloud providers like to publish precise data, usually they downlplay the outages and use weasel words like "some customers... in some regions... might have experienced" just not to admit they had an outage) and present stats comparing the availability of Heztner Cloud vs the big three.
You can cheat elections with enough money. Excepting that citizens are generally not on an equal footing with their own government. Party politics exist.
We don't have "true democracy" in the UK. There are two main issues:
- Votes are not equal. You need to win constituencies to get "a point". If you get enough points, you can form the government. But that means huge parts of sparsely populated areas have votes which count for more than the densely populated parts, where people's votes count for less.
- You don't need an overall majority to win "a point". You just need more than every other candidate in that constituency. That means a government can gain absolute majority power with a very low overall vote share. The current government got 34% of the overall votes, yet won the largest government majority in history.
And we're trapped with this system, because the main parties won't let us change it. When it was tried, and we had a national referendum on it, they rigged the vote in their favour by only offering a complicated and relatively crap alternative and spent our money on propaganda like this:
Or like there is an expectation companies will treat your information with respect and act with integrity. It is unfortunate that that causes companies to have to think for longer about how they will act before they do.
> It is unfortunate that that causes companies to have to think for longer
It is basic market dynamics that the harder you make it to enter a market, the more reluctant entrants will be. Whether the regulation that makes market entry more difficult is "good" or "bad" is simply irrelevant.
If you think a node-based editor makes a society modern, you have no idea what you are talking about, and you are foolish enough to believe this is what progress looks like. Not to discredit OAI, but you are just a victim of their marketing, chasing the next thing, which is merely an illusion of innovation, and it works because it fills your lack of true belonging. Do as you wish, you are a free consumer after all, but don’t go on the internet and discredit other people, their work and contribution, just because you’re are pathetic bystander yourself.
