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Remote OK founder Pieter Levels argues Japan lacks proprietary foundational models, noting Rakuten AI is a fine-tune of China's DeepSeek

Levels was defending a Chinese cat-themed physical AI device.

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OP@levelsio#849@levelsio@LEVELSIO

That's a really outdated mindset Japan doesn't even have its own LLM like DeepSeek Its biggest model is Rakuten AI which is a finetuned version of Chinese DeepSeek The cope about China not innovating can't last forever

2:14 AM · May 24, 2026 View on X
Remote OK founder Pieter Levels argues Japan lacks proprietary foundational models, noting Rakuten AI is a fine-tune of China's DeepSeek · Digg