I’ve definitely heard that people make certain assumptions….

If you’re always sleeping around it’s cause you don’t know what sex actually is, and are almost certainly just bad at it.

Maybe unpopular opinion? People who sleep around a lot are actually just bad at sex. Sex with a long-term partner is infinitely more interesting and fulfilling in nearly every way.

Ha, maybe that too. But I get the sense everyone has been racing ahead on days quality roughly in parallel, including synthetic data.

Not to mention that DeepSeek keeps substantially innovating in public. Astra is literally built on an old DeepSeek paper!

The claim that Chinese models are “just distilled western models” is obvious nonsense. The Chinese models often end up better than the ones they’re supposedly distilled from, and K3 came out when Fable had only been accessible for a very brief period. The distillation claim seems to basically be a fantasy of the western labs that want to think they’re just that far ahead and Chinese people are all dumb copycats - no different than what tech thought of China 15-20 years ago.