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  • The article discusses the recent disruption in the generative AI industry caused by DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company. Here are the key points:

    1. DeepSeek has introduced AI models that are competitive with OpenAI’s but significantly more efficient and cheaper to run.

    2. This development challenges the prevailing narrative that AI models must be expensive and require massive infrastructure investments.

    3. DeepSeek’s models are open-source and can be run locally on modest hardware, unlike OpenAI’s closed and resource-intensive models.

    4. The company’s V3 model is competitive with OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude, while being 53 times cheaper to run.

    5. DeepSeek’s R1 model competes with OpenAI’s reasoning model (o1) at a fraction of the cost.

    6. The company has also released an image generation model that reportedly outperforms StableDiffusion and DALL-E 3.

    7. DeepSeek’s approach has raised questions about the massive investments made by tech giants in AI infrastructure.

    8. There are concerns about DeepSeek’s funding sources and potential Chinese state involvement, though these remain speculative.

    9. The article suggests that OpenAI and Anthropic may have been less incentivized to pursue efficiency due to their abundant funding and lack of profitability pressure.

    10. This development could potentially reshape the AI industry, challenging the dominance of well-funded Western tech companies.











  • Yea… uhhh. I have no happy thoughts on any of this, to be frank. We kind of need a miracle? Historically speaking, though - we are looking at what any other population saw as they went from democracy to dictatorship. Not much comfort in that. All I have been doing is building curated news sources in RSS and getting to know friendly decentralized communities. The sooner I can get off the Meta based socials, the better. Also, I have been reading about past dictatorships. I’m learning about the Nicaraguan one right now. Lot’s of parallels. The one silver lining, I guess, is - after a while most dictatorships turn thier own supporters… violently. Yay?