I'm still reading the details, but my first thought is that I like that the competition is actually working in this situation. I hope that someday it will be more open from all actors. And that we don't make more polarized that it is now and don't focus on the geopolitical angle and make it the core issue. I know that this hope is far fetched and more ideal than most people would think. But as someone who really find these development interesting and would like LLMs to be more useful (and don't think too much about AGI as it is the fusion project of the Artificial Intelligence field).
This is far too soon after R1 to be a reaction. They were training this model before R1. If they stopped censoring the reasoning steps or (Yud forbid) open sourced it, that would be competition really working. But they won't.
