alt Hacker NewsOh yeah that's a good point. In that case, this Chinese hedge fund is choosing to sink billions of dollars in R&D alongside vast opportunity cost in order to create models and release them for free because umm... they're just that nice!
No wonder you're confused about DeepSeek when you have a fairly obvious explanation provided to you, and your response is "it's unrealistic to think the Chinese Communist Party is behaving like communists."
> if that were true, why don't they have just one model initiative instead of several?
Because value exists at several layers of the product hierarchy? I.e. for the exact same reason that the for-profit labs don't have just one model initiative?
so you can't believe a private enterprise in a non democratic country can be capitalist. surely there must be state involvement because they aren't democratic and it's open weights which is definetely not just a marketing tactic because you definetely can run it on a desktop. companies like alibaba have 1 model initiative spread across several fields. so basically China for some unexplainable reason has duplicate models. (it's because they have a capitalist economy, even though the government is not democratic)
to you, it's plainly obvious that a non american, non-european company engaging in open source and releasing research means they are state owned and seek to destroy the US when this line of thinking is exactly the result of the red scare.