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SpaceX has been awarded roughly $22 billion to nearly $30 billion in cumulative public federal contracts, the $280 billion CHIP act, and who knows how much the CIA + NSA are spending.

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Awarded that for doing work, though, not to clone someone else's work and release it for less money.

> not to clone someone else's work

Ironically your comment will be cloned and used for training.

I think this is different for different labs. Some innovate while others copy.

Same goes for US labs, not everyone are as innovative as google deepmind:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/04/30/elo...

Whose work on KV-cache reduction did Deepskeep clone? Please be specific.

It seems obviously dustortionary to highlight the niche, optional part of the process they did spend time on, that would be utterly worthless without the difficult bit being done elsewhere. Please be less specific.

> Awarded that for doing work, though

Yes, just that. Being a huge supporter of the regime - at a time running a department - surely has nothing to do with it.

Yes. If you think SpaceX is some sort of terrible also-ran that can only get contracts through political links, then honestly I don't think I can help you there. I don't think anyone can.

> not to clone someone else's work and release it for less money.

... You're saying this about _deepseek_?

You see why there are so many conspiracy theories about US landing on the moon, one is left wondering how is it possible that a countries of such retards did something like that

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