… Meanwhile, OpenAI’s head of strategic futures Dean Ball said that Kimi is “a very good model” whose performance probably can’t be “explained away by distillation or anything like that,” adding that he’s “personally surprised the Chinese state continues to allow the open sourcing of models this good… …
… Beyond suggesting that certain folks should “touch grass” rather than spending their weekends arguing on X, Sean noted that in many ways, this “feels like we’re seeing repeats of prior freakouts,” with everyone in Silicon Valley “expecting that something is going to arrive and blow everything else … …
… In April, the White House said it would work closely with AI firms to combat the theft. Sanctions from the U.S. against Chinese models would add to the growing list of strategies the government is attempting to maintain the lead in the AI race. …
… The company instead had to pivot to using Chinese AI firm Z.ai’s GLM 5.2, a powerful open-weight model, to defend itself against the attack. The letter highlights a divide in the AI industry. …
… We believe it’s shameful to claim American AI dominance desires while selling millions worth of data to countries that we are in adversarial competition with.” Like Mercor, Micro1 began as an AI recruiting startup. …
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… Already, US graduate programs mainly build on open-weight Chinese models, and Hancock says that half of the papers students study are coming from Chinese institutions, with American frontier labs increasingly reticent about sharing their work widely. “Restricting open models wouldn’t make AI safer,… …
… Fall’s resignation also follows this weekend’s handwringing over Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s new version of its open model Kimi, which performed competitively against flagship frontier models. The administration was weighing efforts to somehow ban Chinese open models, Axios reported . …
… As the New York Times reported , when a lawyer asked him if xAI had ever distilled technology from OpenAI, Musk replied: “Generally AI companies distill other AI companies.” Anthropic in February accused three Chinese model makers of doing this to Claude. …
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