The reported compute gap between Chinese AI labs and OpenAI

Nathan Lambert says Chinese AI labs have talent comparable to US labs but are more short on compute. He says researchers in China react with disbelief when he relays a figure he heard: that an average OpenAI researcher can access 5,000 H100 equivalents. Lambert, who is launching the nonprofit open AI lab Trillium, also argues that distillation gives labs an edge of only a few months.