I think I must have seen 100+ Sputnik references today.
It's an obvious parallel.
I do wonder what the REAL cost was. I have huge doubts that the Chinese are being forthcoming about the resources actually put into Deepseek. Anything involving the PRC should be called "Deep-Cheat" IMO.
That would be my first reaction. That's why I think open sourcing it was brilliant. If it underperforms or contains malware, that will not be able to be hidden when open sourced.
I haven't seen one expert, including their competitors, claim there is anything that looks fake. I guess they would know what they are looking at.
Actually the Chinese may have done us a favor. If their tech checks out, that could save us trillions of dollars we were about to shell out on advanced hardware\chips for the AI Race.
Trust but verify, but this may upend the last 5 years of infrastructure planning for the big race.
It would be like the mistake of pouring all your resources into super expensive mega capital battleships in WWII only to realize that tech is not really relevant anymore and CV's are the real source of power.
Suck for those companies who have already invested billions in the wrong chips or companies that thought they were going to have a hardware\chip corner on humanities new game-changing tech market.
Possible a really big historic paradigm shift.
We'll see.
