06:39
2026-06-14
dev.to
large-language-models
A Chinese 8B model beat the Western 8B models at Japanese RAG. I still wouldn't put it in the default deployment — and that distinction is the point.
A developer benchmarked Japanese, Western, and Chinese 8B models on a Japanese RAG task, finding that Japanese-tuned models significantly outperform Western 8B models, while Chinese deepseek-r1-8b mat…