“China can only copy the US” is a very short sighted and uninformed opinion. there is more coming out of china than just new ways to distill models

I don’t know how anyone can look at the innovation going on at DeepSeek and come to the conclusion that China can only copy.

Distillation and copying are how they’ve bootstrapped their models, but that feels not so different than Anthropic and Meta torrenting millions of pirated books.

The Chinese labs are solving problems for a different set of constraints.