It’s not an engineering project. It’s a pump-and-dump scam.

We are repeating an old pattern in computing: throw more hardware at the problem until efficiency becomes impossible to ignore. Bigger models have delivered remarkable gains, but they’re increasingly expensive. The next breakthroughs may come less from adding parameters and more from smarter architectures, better algorithms and more efficient inference.

DeepSeek has really led the way here, especially as they are a bit more hardware constrained. Plus they openly publish their findings and release open source models, so high hopes there.

It’s probably China’s play to pop the AI bubble, but I’m all for it (:

I wonder what all is in the deepseek code that is malicious. I’d like to try it but don’t want a million Mb/s of tracker shit across my network and can’t run it myself.

The beauty of it is that it doesn’t need tracker shit. It works to destroy the US AI bubble even without anything malicious within.

And considering how hard the US researchers have been trying to control the output of their general LLMs, with little success, why would the Chinese have found a way before everyone else even thinks it’s possible?

Okay. I’ll give it a whirl then.