Alex Kantrowitz
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first heard Jul 2026
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I know.
Let's go bit by bit.
You know this really well, so we need to learn this from you.
Okay, so first of all, on this idea that the Chinese models are distilled from American models.
To a degree, yes.
What they'll do is they'll just run a bunch of queries, get the answers, and they'll sort of bake that into the intelligence.
of the model.
But the distillation part of this has been given too much credit because at the end of the day, what's happening with AI is the blueprint to build these models are on the internet, right?
So basically, all you need is compute data in a big model.
And the bigger all three of those get, the better performance you have.
Now, there are some new tricks that you can use to make the model perform better, but that's at the core of this.
So, you know, this idea that China couldn't build the model, you know,
Of course they can.
The blueprints are on the internet.
Now, the constraint within China is compute because we will not sell the cutting edge NVIDIA chips to China.
So what China has to do is specialize.
So, you know, large language models, they're large, which means that when you, you know, write a query to chat GPT, you're getting something that probably is, you know,
can answer your health questions at a high level, can answer science questions at a high level, can go search the internet and tell you if your train is delayed, can go into your email and draft emails for you.
What's happened in China is there's been a specialization, right?
The constraint, and this is something Grace Xiao, who's a China analyst,
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