American Models
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Reyes: Chinese AI models show no unique security backdoors versus US models
“For me, the Chinese models specifically have demonstrated no examples where they have some sort of security risk or backdoor compared to American models.”
Angelopoulos: Kimi K3 Beat Top US Closed Models in Web Development
“And for the first time ever, we saw a couple of weeks ago that Kimi K three actually beat the best closed source American models on a, you know, pretty important subset of tasks, for example, front end coding, like web development, which a huge fraction of dev…”
Angelopoulos: China Has Already Restricted American AI Models Domestically
“And by the way, it's worth noting that China has already restricted the use of American models within China, right? So if you look at the two by two matrix of US China restrict, not restrict, you know, like export import stuff They have already restricted the …”
Neuberger: American AI models do not inject political censorship into translation
“So in that case, they didn't have to worry that when the content was dubbed into different languages, that if the speaker said something sensitive about Tiananmen Square, or sensitive regarding the Chinese government, that using an American model, that content…”
Dave Morin argues China is rapidly outpacing the US in open-source AI
“Chinese innovation and open source models is really rapid and really impressive. Like these guys are doing extremely good work extremely quickly. And by the way, there's no great open source American model that is Truly open source.”
Andreessen: US AI Models Embed Constraints From a Specific Demographic
“I can tell you, the American models have all kinds of constraints also. Right, implemented, you know, usually by a very specific kind of person in a very specific location in the US.”
Krishnan: Measure AI Dominance by American Hardware and Model Inference Share
“And one of the measures I've been thinking about is let's say the world inferences, I don't know, maybe it's called 10 quadrillion tokens a month. We don't know what the number is, right? What share of those tokens are being inferenced on American hardware on …”