这是 Simon Willison 的一篇链接帖子,发表于 2026 年 7 月 20 日:/2026/Jul/20/。
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Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?:https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/ (via:https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/20/thompson-chinese-models-distillation) Interesting proposal from Ben Thompson that both addresses the hypocrisy of labs outlawing distillation against their models despite training on unlicensed data, and could help US open models compete more effectively with their Chinese counterparts:
Ben also theorizes that Alibaba's decision to release Qwen 3.8 Max as open weights - a reversal from their decision not to release Qwen 3.7 Max:https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.7 in May - may have been influenced by a recent speech:http://english.scio.gov.cn/topnews/2026-07/18/content_118605932.html by Xi Jinping, who said:
We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing.
And on the subject of Qwen 3.8 Max:https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291 - a new 2.4T parameter model (nearly as large as the 2.8T Kimi K3) - here's a pelican it drew:https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2F735f2cf19b795517cb2ff6cae1c71c64:
I particularly enjoyed seeing these notes in the (extensive) reasoning trace: "Could add helmet? No." and "Maybe add small bell? no." and "Need maybe add small fish in basket? Not necessary."
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