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Are the Chinese really that big of a threat, if their main source of innovation is distilling models?

If the Chinese don't have as much compute as the US, dont have as many researchers as us, labs the size of ours, or VC's as influential as the US, then realistically what threat do they pose if anthropic and OpenAI decided tommorow they would never release a model until they achieved ASI. I just do…

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  1. 2026-09-27 21:09 · r/artificial
    Are the Chinese really that big of a threat, if their main source of innovation is distilling models?

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