alt Hacker NewsPublishing by necessity I wonder? American labs on the cutting edge pioneering the way forward, so Deepseek open sourcing what they’ve got is to help even the playing field.
Hopefully the experts here can offer insight. The above is just my hunch and I’m not a specialist in this field.
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Wouldn’t that just help the American labs anyway though? Or do they assume they’ve actually already figured this stuff out and kept it secret?
I'm afraid I'm even balking at the word "pioneering" in context with US frontier labs. They are probably doing a few new things, right, but they are not blazing any trails for others to follow along, the Chinese are.
> Publishing by necessity
It's more a cultural thing. Sharing progress is just in their blood.
Chinese papers and techniques have been very influential and copied by US labs.
Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), Multi-Token prediction, MoE architecture are some of the most famous examples.
Yes, challenger Labs publish out of necessity. It is a marketing strategy. People assuming open source means giving something up, but the reality is that Z.ai has a revenue of some $100M and it would be about $0M if they never open sourced their models.