Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-new-chinese-ai-model-claims-to-outperform-gpt-5-and-sonnet-4-5-and-its-free/
If the January arrival of R1 was that country's "Sputnik Moment," then Thursday's debut of Moonshot's Kimi K2 Model is the Chinese AI industry's moon landing (pun intended).
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/11/13/chinas-ai-is-quietly-making-big-inroads-in-silicon-valley
“Chinese open models have become a de facto standard among startups in the US,” Lambert told Al Jazeera.
“I’ve personally heard of many other high-profile cases, where the most valued and hyped American AI startups are starting training models on the likes of Qwen, Kimi, GLM or DeepSeek,” Lambert said, adding that many US firms have been reluctant to publicly disclose their use of Chinese technology.