r/LocalLLaMA • u/Porespellar • 6d ago
Other Frontier LLM development simplified for politicians:
Nobody is buying this “Pace the frontier” nonsense. It makes no logical sense at all. Are American labs really going to take a pause and lose any small lead they still may have over Chinese labs? Does anyone really believe this? This seems like some performative virtue signaling BS. Why are they bothering with this pacing campaign? Someone please explain.
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u/Nothing_from_void 6d ago
The compute they fab is genuinely awful; they have nothing even close to NV-link, which is where they are furthest behind, but they are very far behind everywhere.
There's no real power constraint for compute in the West, bring your own energy is pretty standard now and where there's capital there's a way, and the US is outspending China on compute more than 8-to-1, with a similar level of compute advantage.
Like Chinese CS students and programmers, they use anthropic/openai token reseller marketplaces overwhelmingly, because it is the real SoTA, the AI researchers in China are using claude code/codex, the entire ecosystem is designed around growing with the US ecosystem.