About a year after the company began, the speaker viewed the good open models as coming from China and said there were not really good Western open models.

“every year moves faster than than my prediction the previous year and so about a year into the company we got to the point where they're actually like all the good open models are coming from China there were not really good you know Western open models and we needed one as a base for kind of the technology that we were building and decided for a number of reasons that”