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Meta AI in panic mode as free open-source DeepSeek gains traction and outperforms for far less

techstartups.com Meta AI in panic mode as free open-source DeepSeek gains traction and outperforms for far less

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3d ago

techstartups.com /2025/01/24/meta-ai-in-panic-mode-as-free-open-source-deepseek-outperforms-at-a-fraction-of-the-cost/

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I'm starting to wonder why the US ever thought it could it hold an edge in all these fields without ever investing real money into education.
China graduate 5 million STEM students a year and actually invest money into research and pushing technology instead of just finding new ways to extract rent. They were always going to be able to catch up and then move ahead.
- China graduate 5 million STEM students a year and actually invest money into research and pushing technology instead of just finding new ways to extract rent.
  A lot of Western nations are actually reducing their funding to sciences.
  Shooting themselves in the foot and then blaming China for it.
  
  A lot of Western nations are actually reducing their funding to sciences.
  The first axe will always be to the humanities though. The program opportunities between engineering students and liberal arts students at my uni is night and day. Partly why I'm doing a double major, there's just not a sustainable future in the humanities.
- They expected to coast on their dollar power and cultural capital to attract scientists trained elsewhere forever I guess
  
  Probably could've if not for the sinophobia and racism on top of the underfunding
- I think it's mostly just good old racism. They really thought that Chinese were simply intellectually inferior to them and could never develop comparable tech on their own.
  
  They still do this with the assertion that China steals everything from western tech.
- Their plan was to import talent while defunding schools here to give the capitalists tax breaks. China is able to retain their talent though and put them to better use than a capitalist economy ever could.

I have said it before and I'll say it again: They are not panicking. Especially not Meta because their models are open source too. Now, the people who justify the budgets might be pissing their pants a little, but that's about it.

this article is citing the blind posts from yesterday. The thing about blind is you have to sign up using your work email account which seems like a pretty dumb idea. Anyway I wonder if blind will continue to be ignored by management if posts like this are going to continue showing up in the news, it can't be that hard to track down people who have received a blind email verification to the mailbox that you own.

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