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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 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It’s called “off-site training”??

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[–] 46 points 1 year ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 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.

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Are the models this big?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Probably the training data.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh perhaps taking them out of the country then. I imagined the persons were only taking the hard drives into China

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