To be clear: INFTech is a for-profit (I think…?) firm out of Shanghai, and MAP is an international FOSS collective (https://m-a-p.ai/about https://m-a-p.ai/abou

To be clear: INFTech is a for-profit (I think…?) firm out of Shanghai, and MAP is an international FOSS collective (https://m-a-p.ai/about https://m-a-p.ai/about). Speaking generally, a lot of software engineering worldwide is done in English, so it makes sense that they’re training models in English even if some/most of the researchers also speak a Chinese language. Plus, HuggingFace is English-native, and working on FOSS models (FOSLMs?) without targeting that community would be like making a command line accounting tool and not immediately posting it to the HackerNews community. Your comment seems to imply some sort of hidden motivation, but idk, seems pretty straightforwardly benign to me! Plus it’s hard to say how many papers are published in other languages about LLMs, considering we wouldn’t read them.