DeepSeek: 'Cheap' Chinese chatbot shocks AI world
Share prices in US and European firms fall as the Chinese technology threatens to disrupt the AI industry.
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I'm sure the story behind "cheap" is the same as that of Chinese metal. Sell it really cheap to conquer the markets with state subsidized money.
They can sell cheap because of efficiency and there not being millions of middlemen parasites
Maybe? I also suspect espionage, because it's be a relatively easy thing to steal and than finetune to look like your own thing. Cheaper labour is and was the main driver of China's growth, though - otherwise they wouldn't have the budget to subsidise much of anything.
I'm sure there's people already trying to figure out if it's a derivative.
Yes, for sure. If they did copy it, and did it well, though, there really won't be a way to tell. If you already have a working full set of weights finetuning a slightly different net is a much smaller job, compute-wise.