Alice Han
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I use Claude a lot, the enterprise level, because the reasoning is exceptionally good when it comes to the geopolitical analysis, the financial analysis that I'm involved in.
So the way that I think about it is that the American models are really focusing on precision, on reasoning at the highest level as a really quest for AGI.
The Chinese models are really figuring out how to create a market in which everyday people, engineers, corporates even, are downloading locally, experimenting, fine-tuning, and just capturing the benefits of cheaper, faster products.
So I don't think there's a direct comparison.
I think that the market exists for both these models, so to speak, to coexist.
Well, I love that you asked that question, Ed.
I think often that the benchmarks can be red herrings.
There's a good Harding principle in computer science that is applied to this, which suggests that even although they may meet those benchmark goals and exceed the other models, there are certain unquantifiable goals and performance outcomes that they may still be inferior in certain respects to the clods and the open AIs of the world.
So again, back to my previous point, Ed, I really think
that if you care about privacy and cheapness and speed, maybe you go for Quen, you go for Jaipur, you go for Kimmy.
But if you care about frontier, cutting-edge reasoning, precision, then you are still going to favor the clods and the open AIs.
So it's really different universes that they inhabit.
And I think benchmarks can often be red herrings, even although...
There's incentive for these models to come out and say that we're exceeding the benchmarks of other rivals and competitors.
But again, you know, the cost is something that is directly comparable.
It's no surprise that the Chinese models are 10, 20 times cheaper.
And I think that that with cost deflation inertia will continue to favor the Chinese.
But I do think when we look at technology diffusion and value creation, the way that the software economy really came out of the U.S.