alt Hacker NewsProbably because American AI companies are on the hook for quite a lot of investment money. I think they are trying to find the magical moat to justify their valuation.
Revealing optimizations similar to these would pretty much reduce their competitive position.
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Who is financing DeepSeek and what are they expecting in return?
I don't really see the moat for frontier AI labs being "more efficient models" although that could help their margins - I think moats will be built by expanding the horizontal and vertical market expansion - like Anthropic is doing the most at the moment
I seriously am far from fear mongering and doomsday mentality, but I just can't see how OpenAI and Anthropic can have a successful IPO if the quality gap between the free and paid continues to narrow like that...
> Probably because American AI companies are on the hook for quite a lot of investment money
That's a lot of words to say it's just capitalist greed.
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Do you think that DeepSeek are building their models for free, or something? They aren't "on the hook" for anything?
What's with all the China glazing about this stuff? They release some open-source work and people act like they are suddenly the beacon of freedom and transparency.
Chinese labs are also still behind, so they’re incentivized to collaborate and have no reason to do it in private.
I suspect their tune will change if they ever take the lead..