China's AI Earthquake: How DeepSeek's Surprise Model R1 Shook Silicon Valley

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> The Chinese lab reportedly needed only two months of training time to reach performance levels that took Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI years to develop.

Sounds a lot like standing on the backs of giants to me. Why would this blow minds that with newer compute and full hindsight, someone could reproduce something more efficiently?

I feel like I’m missing the point and Google didn’t illuminate any deep article that represented this achievement in novel terms.

So OpenAI doesn’t need to burn through a trillion dollars in the next 10 years after all?

Cool.

I think that if investors see this, that you only need few millions to be almost number one, they will not give them billions so easily. Deepseek changing the narrative of spending money in AI tech.

Right now, they are standing on the backs of giants, but in the future...it could be opposite.

What they achieved with so few resources, it’s WOW and WTF. Maybe it will cause end of the open source models? Because it’s always about money in the end.

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