Chinese open-weight models have risen over the last year or two; some observers attribute their rapid progress partly to distillation of many state-of-the-art models.

“And what's happened over the last year or two is we've really seen the rise of Chinese open weight models. In some cases, there's the perspective that they've been.”

“been distilling a lot of the state-of-the-art models,”

“and so that's part of what's allowed them to make very rapid progress.”