Technology

i'll allow it.

Not only would it be the greatest irony, it would be the best outcome for humanity. Fuck ClosedAI

I don't mind

DeepSeek claimed the model training took 2,788 thousand H800 GPU hours, which, at a cost of $2/GPU hour, comes out to a mere $5.576 million.

That seems impossibly low.

DeepSeek is clear that these costs are only for the final training run, and exclude all other expenses

https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/

So many people don't even question it. Talk loud and confidently enough and that's the bar for most unfortunately.

TikTok, Instagram and similar are great examples of this, initially you think wow cool I'm seeing all of these new things and getting so much info. Then you see someone come up on a topic you know something about and the facade breaks when all they do is spew misinformation that attracts a crowd (usually via fear).

Corpo parasite took over before the nerd could make the company great.

Gets Cucked by the Chinese

There is some justice out there.

Id say their lead is over.

Im enjoying all the capitalist oligarchs losing their minds over Deepseek destroying the piles of money they were already counting in their heads. It's not much, but it's something.

Hey I saw a red lobster today, they’re still here. 3 kinds of shrimp for $22!

If you throw billions of dollars at a problem, you will always get the most expensive solution.

Artificial General Intelligence, the pipedream of a technological intelligence that is not producing a single thing but generally capable, like a human.

Edit: recommended reading is “Life 3.0”. While I think it is overly positive about AI, it gives a good overview of AI industry and innovation, and the ideas behind it. You will have to swallow a massive chunk of Musk-fanboism, although to be fair it predates Musk’s waving the fasces.

I think with a lot of technologies the first 95% is easy but the last 5% becomes exponentially harder.

With LLMs though I think the problem is conflating them with other forms of intelligence.

They're amazingly good at forming sentences, but they're unable to do real actual work.

Probably should point out that DeepSeek is owned by a Chinese hedge fund. They specialize in algorithmic trading. Can't get much more capitalist than that. Very happy to see Chinese capitalists release an open source model. No doubt Altman and cronies will seek protection under the guise of national security. I guess free market competition is only good when you are not getting your arse kicked.

Chinese economy is even more capitalist if that's possible.

While I tend to avoid conspiracy theory type thinking, the nature of modern social makes it very easy to run astroturfing/botting campaigns. It's reasonable to be suspicious.

I find the online cheerleading for AI and AGI strange. It feels like a frothing mob rooting for the unleashing of a monster at times.

I believe this will ultimately be good news for Nvidia, terrible news for OpenAI.

Better access to software is good for hardware companies. Nvidia is still the world leader when it comes to delivering computing power for AI. That hasn’t changed (yet). All this means is that more value can be made from Nvidia gpus.

For OpenAI, their entire business model is based on the moat they’ve built around ChatGPT. They made a $1B bet on this idea - which they now have lost. All their competitive edge is suddenly gone. They have no moat anymore!

The fact that you can run it locally with good perfomance on 4+ years old machine (an M1 Max for example), is not exactly a good news for them. I think deepseek just made their 500 billion investment project, which was already absurd, incredibly stupid. I'm gonna say it again, the GAFAM economy is based on a whole lot of nothing. Now more then even, we can the web back and destroy their system. Fuck the tech-bros and their oligarch friend.