Chinese AI outfits smuggling suitcases full of hard drives to evade U.S. chip restrictions — training AI models in Malaysia using rented servers (www.tomshardware.com)
from jerryh100@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 15:34
https://lemmy.world/post/31592341

It’s called “off-site training”??

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LWD@lemm.ee on 18 Jun 16:12 next collapse

OpenAI has gotten virtually unlimited funding for years. It has first dibs and deep discounts on Microsoft data centers.

And somehow, despite every single trade restriction, multiple random startup companies in China (that don’t even know how to secure their own databases) manage to make LLMs that outperform it.

I’m not saying that because Chinese companies are uniquely cool. I’m saying that because this whole AI thing is uniquely stupid.

nucleative@lemmy.world on 19 Jun 11:55 collapse

It’s an interesting observation. Chinese tend to run scrappy operations with something like a “do it no matter what, ethics be damned” strategy.

But it doesn’t bode too well for OpenAIs current level given how much funding and talent they presumably have.

LodeMike@lemmy.today on 18 Jun 20:47 collapse

Are the models this big?

ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Jun 10:07 collapse

Probably the training data.