Reflection raised on the idea of creating the "American Deepseek Project"
replyWho's funding this?
replyLooks like Nvidia, Eric Schmidt, Sequoia, and a host of others https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/reflection-raises-2b-to-be...
replyI still don't get why, after over a decade on HN, people refuse to Google very simple questions.
replyReciprocally, people probably do go find out. The great filter is also how many of them come back to post the useful interesting information.
replyquesiton is more like "lets analyze the motivations behind funding this"
replyMultiple independent approaches are cool and all but fully open source model training (datasets, pipeline, checkpoints) should be taking advantage of being open and share runs/budget between different entities.
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