… The fact that multiple Chinese labs were able to create capable agentic models and were unafraid to release them to the public is poking holes in the popular understanding that OpenAI and Anthropic are miles ahead of the competition. …
… Lately, however, distillation has become a controversial topic, because of claims that Chinese AI companies use it to essentially copy the best US models. In February, OpenAI told US lawmakers that DeekSeek seemed to have copied one of its models to build a reasoning model called R1. …
… David Sacks, the former White House AI czar and current technology adviser to President Donald Trump, has claimed that Anthropic is essentially trying to get cumbersome laws passed to trap smaller AI startups in red tape, thus securing its own position as a leader in the AI race. “Anthropic is runn… …
… Cursor has also started training in-house AI models that it can cost effectively serve to customers. The startup recently launched Composer 2, an AI model based on an open-source system from the Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI, that Cursor did additional pretraining and post-training on. …
… The Trump administration’s new framework is an attempt to strike a balance between promoting competition in the AI industry and maintaining safety. …
… And later in the show, how OpenAI lost control of two of its AI models during a recent security test. Zoë Schiffer: So this past Friday, the Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI released their latest model called Kimi K3. …
… I also just can't help but think about almost like last summer when the massive hiring spree and competition was going on between OpenAI's and Meta's superintelligence labs, the insane salaries and competition. And again, it just felt like we're just grabbing. …