Perfectly valid claim. It could be debated though, since you are talking about a centuries long diaspora of processes.

I'm talking about an architecture that was invented, published, and pioneered by US companies just a few years ago. Not really the same argument IMO.

> Regarding distillation, you can also say Anthropic and OpenAI stole /distilled books, articles, blogs from everyone who published things without knowing their work might be used against them

Yes. I would argue that anthropic et al are only able to exist because of the massive body of work in the anglosphere, both in books and online. That goes hand-in-hand with my view of the Chinese AI sphere.