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How did the Chinese labs catch up so fast if most of the early training work was in the US?

OpenAI, Google, etc has a years long head start on training. Then Deepseek and the other Chinese labs closed a lot of that gap in a much shorter window. How did they do this? I know open source papers and compute factor greatly. What I don't get is the data part of the equation. Besides US data lab…

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  1. 2026-09-22 18:42 · r/artificial
    How did the Chinese labs catch up so fast if most of the early training work was in the US?

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