CTS co-founder @KonstantinPilz explains how he knows Chinese labs are distilling US…
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CTS co-founder @KonstantinPilz explains how he knows Chinese labs are distilling US models, and the black market for ChatGPT tokens feeding it: "If you scale up your AI model by 10 times, then your capabilities increase by a certain amount, and it's a very predictable rate. US progress is only this fast because all of these companies are ramping up their compute very quickly, and we are not seeing that in China." "It is possible that China is making 10 times faster progress in algorithms. I don't see any reason to believe that is the case. So the only real explanation for me is that they are
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