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Lower cost of labor, lots of under the hood optimizations (e.g. cache hits for DS), many of these companies have existing infra (fewer upfront costs for deploym
by throwaway67678 3mo ago
Lower cost of labor, lots of under the hood optimizations (e.g. cache hits for DS), many of these companies have existing infra (fewer upfront costs for deployment), etc
- ecshafer 3mo agoChina isn't that cheap for labor. And if you think the guys in Z.ai or xiaoxiao aren't the exact same guys from Tsinghua, Peking, MIT, Stanford, CMU, etc. and pulling in amazing salaries you'd be wrong.
- throwaway67678 3mo agoI'd assume there's more to the cost of labor than the salaries of the elite folks who do the R&D, but fair point
- nmfisher 3mo agoZ.ai was actually a spin-off from Tsinghua (THUDM) AFAIK.