🎙️ EP 363: The U.S.-China AI Divergence & Fastino’s 340M Model Tops Task Benchmarks
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The AI race between the U.S. and China is fragmenting into two distinct philosophies: American labs leveraging massive compute capital, while Chinese developers capitalize on cost efficiency, dominating platforms like OpenRouter. Concurrently, Fastino Labs released GLiNER2.5-Decide, an open-weight 340M parameter model designed for low-latency decision, routing, and classification tasks on consumer CPUs.
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How the AI competition is splitting between high-compute scaling in…
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