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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)
submitted 1 day ago by jerryh100@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It’s called “off-site training”??

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That's just another way of saying "move fast and break things".

[–] LodeMike 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Are the models this big?

[–] ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

Probably the training data.