his against Chinese models is smoking screen for their resistance to DOW, they are not even pretending

Better naive than malicious.

You're saying that as if these two things are mutually exclusive.

At a certain level, ignorance IS malicious.

If you have more money than god, you no longer get to play the "I didn't know" game. You have the resources. If you don't know, you made a choice to not know.

The first one is definitely one we agree on and the second was one that I had not clued into so thank you.

Every day I hope the Chinese models get "good enough" to drop these corporate ones. I think we are heading towards it.

kid, time to grow up and face the reality

Chinese models are developed by Chinese corporate. they are free and open weight because they are the underdog atm. they are not here for fun, they are here to compete.

The competition is good though, it will push down the prices for all of us. At some point being behind 5% won’t have much practical difference. Most people won’t even notice it.

The moment the Chinese create a model that is "good enough" they won't open source it

I will gladly switch to that one if their CEO is less of sociopath than Altman and god forbid Amodei. In fact I use some of the new Chinese models at home and compared to Opus 4.6 AGI, the difference is getting less. Codex 5.3 xhigh is already better than opus anyway.

“I don’t need to win, I just need you to lose”