Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Alice Han

👤 Speaker
2362 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

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.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

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.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

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.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

models.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

So I don't think there's a direct comparison.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

I think that the market exists for both these models, so to speak, to coexist.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

Well, I love that you asked that question, Ed.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

I think often that the benchmarks can be red herrings.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

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.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

So again, back to my previous point, Ed, I really think

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

that if you care about privacy and cheapness and speed, maybe you go for Quen, you go for Jaipur, you go for Kimmy.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

But if you care about frontier, cutting-edge reasoning, precision, then you are still going to favor the clods and the open AIs.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

So it's really different universes that they inhabit.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

And I think benchmarks can often be red herrings, even although...

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

There's incentive for these models to come out and say that we're exceeding the benchmarks of other rivals and competitors.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

But again, you know, the cost is something that is directly comparable.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

It's no surprise that the Chinese models are 10, 20 times cheaper.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

And I think that that with cost deflation inertia will continue to favor the Chinese.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

Yeah.

Prof G Markets
China’s AI Is 20x Cheaper — And Catching Up

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.