Frontier models aren't released, they are closed source.
And the Chinese have been a huge source of innovation in the field.
And the Chinese have been a huge source of innovation in the field.
It was much easier when companies had models on the /completion style APIs, because you could actually get the logits for each generation step, and use that as a dataset to fit your model to.
That isn't to diminish the efforts of the Chinese developers though, they are great.
They have been a source of innovation but probably not in training them.