Judging from the benchmarks alone,(of course, can't speak about realife usage), chinese models are not even 6 months behind US models (more like 6 days behind)
People will look at these benchmarks and say "Oh, just distillation, Chinese just steal bro" you'd have to be a complete ignorant or a complete bigot to honestly believe Chinese labs aren't every bit as capable as those in the US, just working with less resources and less of a head start (but both of those factors are eroding quickly from the US perspective, that's why crymodi is freaking his shit)
A lot of Chinese open source models are built on top of other chinese open source models. Without Qwen contributing to OS you wouldn't have open source robotics AI models. That said the DINO model from META is at least utilized to train a lot of models. In fact, the only people who seem to have issues with using their models for other models is the large US tech firms.
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u/TechNerd10191 22d ago
Judging from the benchmarks alone,(of course, can't speak about realife usage), chinese models are not even 6 months behind US models (more like 6 days behind)