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Min-p contributor Minh Nhat Nguyen says Chinese LLMs match Western models for 80% of tasks, but the gap justifies 10x costs

Global universities widely adopt them as the strongest open-weights options.

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Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin#1174inAI

@deanwball they are at parity

for day to day stuff 80% of the time a Chinese model is fine

unfortunately the last 20% is also extremely annoying and can be worth the 10x difference

Dean W. Ball@deanwball

You’d be shocked by how many people in think tanks/academia/government/“strategic classes,” including in the U.S., are convinced that Chinese models are now “good enough” and leading the world in adoption. Meanwhile, the reality I see is a fairly wide, and still widening, gap.

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/AI11h ago

Min-p contributor Minh Nhat Nguyen says Chinese LLMs match Western models for 80% of tasks, but the gap justifies 10x costs

Global universities widely adopt them as the strongest open-weights options.

02101553

#65

Original post

Minh Nhat Nguyen@menhguin#1174inAI

@deanwball they are at parity

for day to day stuff 80% of the time a Chinese model is fine

unfortunately the last 20% is also extremely annoying and can be worth the 10x difference

Dean W. Ball@deanwball

6:33 AM · Jun 7, 2026 · 507 Views

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Thomas G. Dietterich@tdietterich

@deanwball @james1ach The Chinese OSS systems are certainly adopted by research groups worldwide. My impression is that they are the strongest of the open weights models, and that is what university researchers care about. Perhaps that explains this to some extent.

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