https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ottotarcHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:19:01 +0000Given the national security implications, it's no surprise that Japan and China are rushing to build sovereign models post-ban. But when these startups claim parity with "Mythos," could it be that they are just optimizing for very specific inference tasks? I wonder if we are seeing the real battleground shift from raw training scale toward specialized inference.

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