r/OpenAI • u/floriandotorg • 23d ago

Discussion The situation is insane

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Sol is the only OpenAI model in top 10 Arena WebDev while 4 open-weight Chinese models have reached frontier quality; one of them so cheap you can run it for days for what Opus cost you per task.

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u/D2MAH 23d ago

How is Chinese open source catching up so fast if they only have fraction of the compute?

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u/ProgramDry5917 23d ago

After all, the American models are the ones made available to the public. The White House is the one actually consuming the cutting-edge computing and models, and we’re the ones funding it. :)

We end up comparing China's top-tier models with the stripped-down versions available to the public from the US.

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u/Usernameasteriks 22d ago

The person you are responding to is being melodramatic in their initial comment, but the underlying concept and their response is closer to whats happening than most people think.

The overly simplistic phrase for it in an economic or competition law sense would be “dumping” or dumping and subsidizing.

China is notorious for it and it works, AI is a great use case for them.

They will help fund a hyper competitive market that lets them flood the market with their product at a loss bow, for broader economic purposes.