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AI developer Teortaxes argues capital and data engineering, not compute, bottleneck Chinese efforts to replicate frontier models

Zephyr notes ByteDance talent lacks coding and agentic AI.

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> It’s infact trivial for Chinese to produce a model like that it's not, but hilariously enough not because of compute limitations. There are clusters in China that could, theoretically, train Mythos/Fable in a few months. Is there capital for that? What about years of data work?

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Bytedance could probably do it But they hired too many people from GDM, so they are great at vision but suck at agentic stuff and coding

> It’s infact trivial for Chinese to produce a model like that it's not, but hilariously enough not because of compute limitations. There are clusters in China that could, theoretically, train Mythos/Fable in a few months. Is there capital for that? What about years of data work?

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@zephyr_z9 spiritual pollution lol should have kept them away from coding I guess

Zephyr@zephyr_z9

Bytedance could probably do it But they hired too many people from GDM, so they are great at vision but suck at agentic stuff and coding

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@zephyr_z9 Regarding code, we can patiently wait for deepseek (4.1 is coming out this month, focusing primarily on multimodal + code). ByteDance is responsible for the vision model; it is a different division of labor.

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