Still worth noting that, while DeepSeek is a huge improvement over American AI firms, they still don’t really have a solution for scaling up how smart their models are compared to the others; they can just make an equivalent model for much cheaper. So it doesn’t really solve the problem the AI firms are trying to skirt their way around, which is that they can’t deliver on the “today ChatGPT can count the r’s in strawberry, in 3 years it will be able to build a space station” type promises when the models don’t scale.
Still worth noting that, while DeepSeek is a huge improvement over American AI firms, they still don’t really have a solution for scaling up how smart their models are compared to the others; they can just make an equivalent model for much cheaper. So it doesn’t really solve the problem the AI firms are trying to skirt their way around, which is that they can’t deliver on the “today ChatGPT can count the r’s in strawberry, in 3 years it will be able to build a space station” type promises when the models don’t scale.