It’s no secret that China idea of technological advancement often boils down to copying whatever the US has come up with. When it comes to artificial intelligence that’s still what is happening. A few weeks ago Wired published an article about a Chinese AI startup that it said was winning the Open AI race:
Meta shook up the race to build more powerful artificial intelligence last July by releasing Llama 2, an AI model similar to the one behind ChatGPT, for anyone to download and use. In November, a little-known startup from Beijing, 01.AI, released its own open source model that outperforms Llama 2 and scores near the top of many leaderboards used to compare the power of AI models.
Sounds impressive but much later in the story we get this.
Not long after the Chinese model was released, some developers noticed that 01.AI’s code had previously included mentions of Meta’s model that…
