So how can Deepseek publish them without killing themselves?
replyBecause they are a state-owned enterprise tasked with destroying the aforementioned alpha of private American labs...?
replyoh here we go again saying everything in china is done by the state. it's not a democracy but they're not the soviet union either. if that were true, why don't they have just one model initiative instead of several?
replyOh yeah that's a good point. In that case, this Chinese hedge fund is choosing to sink billions of dollars in R&D alongside vast opportunity cost in order to create models and release them for free because umm... they're just that nice!
replyNo wonder you're confused about DeepSeek when you have a fairly obvious explanation provided to you, and your response is "it's unrealistic to think the Chinese Communist Party is behaving like communists."
> if that were true, why don't they have just one model initiative instead of several?
Because value exists at several layers of the product hierarchy? I.e. for the exact same reason that the for-profit labs don't have just one model initiative?
Their alpha has been discovered by the other labs. If they took the lead they obviously would not give that up freely.
replyThe fact that they don’t release model weights for free to download on huggingface means that Sam, Mira, Dario, etc are ontologically evil and may they all reincarnate as either durian fruits or cockroaches, ideally as durian fruit infested with cockroaches…
replyIs this a serious take or sarcasm?
replySometimes you just gonna channel your inner Karp
replyI’m dead serious.
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