> given the enormous costs
replyThe costs are enormous only in America. The actual cost is much lower. American technogy in general is ridiculously overpriced -- compare the cost for raw compute on AWS versus Hetzner for example.
Apples to oranges. The AWS premium buys you a much broader platform with autoscaling, dozens of instance families, managed databases, serverless products, IAM, global regions, etc.
replyShit that 99% of CRUD app SaaS don't need.
replyI bet that, all things considered, training 10 new Chinese frontier models costs _significantly_ less than a single modern fighter jet.
replyLet's play a dumb game and assume that training a new model like K3 costs a billion dollars. (It doesn't, but let's play the dumb game still).
replyIf you count it as part of the defense budget, it is 0.3% of their budget. As part of their education budget? 0.05%. Science? 0.5%.
It's pocket change. They can blow a dozen Kimis every year while their own industry is improving and it's a pain in the ass in the US's backside. They're laughing their asses off watching companies having their values inflated to trillions of dollars, more than the GDP of dozens of countries while producing nothing in value more than GPT 5.6.