Western Labs Shift to Adopting Chinese AI Advances

The piece argues Western labs are shifting from distilling Chinese models to adopting their advances. DeepSeek's open KV-cache optimizations cut long-context cache footprint by roughly 437x, and its latest V4.1-Flash reduces global KV cache to 890 bytes per token.

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