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I spent only two minutes reading their documentation and it’s clear no one did any proofreading and it’s full of mistakes made by non-native speakers.

Example: the second sentence on the first page says “softwares” but “software” is a mass noun that cannot be pluralized.

Example: the third page about tokens has some zipped code to “calculate the token usage for your intput/output” and obviously “intput” should be “input” but misspelled.

As a company that produces LLMs, they could have even used their own LLM to edit their documentation to fix grammar issues, and yet they did not.

Maybe I’m just extra sensitive to grammar and spelling issues but this kind of lack of attention to detail is a huge subconscious turnoff. I had to fight my urge to close the tab.

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The tool calling Python example would have benefitted from actually parsing the tool call. As is, it explains almost nothing.
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I am very partial to Mistral's API docs https://docs.mistral.ai/api
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Because they produce revenue from products which abstract this away
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It's because they're optimizing for a different problem.

Western Models are optimizing to be used as an interchangeable product. Chinese models are being optimizing to be built upon.

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>Western Models are optimizing to be used as an interchangeable product.

But so much investment in their platforms, not just their APIs?

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> Western Models are optimizing to be used as an interchangeable product

Why? It sounds like the stupidest idea ever. Interchangeability = no lock-in = no moot.

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First you clone the API of the winner, because you want to siphon users from its install-base and offer de-risked switch over cost.

Now that you’re winning, others start cloning your API to siphon your users.

Now that you’re losing, you start cloning the current winner, who is probably a clone of your clone.

Highly competitive markets tend to normalize, because lock-in is a cost you can’t charge and remain competitive. The customer holds power here, not the supplier.

Thats also why everyone is trying to build into the less competitive spaces, where they could potentially moat. Tooling, certs, specialized training data, etc

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Our (western) economic model forces competing individual companies to be profitable quickly. China can ignore DeepSeek losing money, because they know developing DeepSeek will help China. Not every institution needs to be profitable.
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You mean like intel, tesla, spacex, openai ?
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Ah yes, the Western economic model forcing individual American companies like Amazon , Youtube and Uber to become profitable after.. checks notes _14 years_ for Uber, 9 years for Amazon, many years for Youtube.
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yes, they want to win the same way they won more or less every other economic competition in the last 30 years, scale out, drop prices and asphyxiate the competition.
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Yeah, it’s an interesting one. I think inertia and expectations at this point? I don’t think the big labs anticipated how low the model switching costs would be and how quickly their leads would be eroded (by each other and the upstarts)

They are developing their moats with the platform tooling around it right now though. Look at Anthropic with Routines and OpenAI with Agents. Drop that capability in to a business with loose controls and suddenly you have a very sticky product with high switching costs. Meanwhile if you stick with purely the ‘chat’ use cases, even Cowork and scheduled tasks, you maintain portability.

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They are all racing to AGI. They aren't designing them to be interchangeable they just happen to be.
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No, they are not. If they were "racing to AGI" they would be working together. OpenAI would still be focused on being a non-profit. Anthropic wouldn't be blocking distillation on their models.
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If by AGI you mean IPO, sure. I genuinely don't believe Dario nor Sam should be trusted at this point. Elon levels of overpromising and underdelivering.
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If by AGI you mean IPO - I automatically read that in Fireship's voice. XD
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If you want other people to know whether you're being genuine or sarcastic, you'll have to put a bit more effort into your comments. Your comment just adds noise.
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What da?
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Meanwhile, they don't actually say which model you are running on Deepseek Chat website.
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You might enjoy Z.ais api docs aswell
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Western orgs have been captured by Silicon Valley style patrimonialism, and aren’t based on merit anymore.
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