DeepSeek is a Chinese startup that’s massively hyped as a rival to OpenAI. DeepSeek claims its R1 model, released January 20, is comparable to OpenAI o1 — and R1 is open source! DeepSeek sell…
Kind of reminds me of the government funding Star wars programs that never produced anything but was credited for spending the Soviet Union into their grave because they couldn’t keep up. But I don’t think it’s going to work the same this time…
Fear of a “bullshit gap”, I guess.
Oh, and: simply perfect choice of header image on that article.
Altman: Mr. President, we must not allow a bullshit gap!
Musk: I have a plan… Mein Führer, I can walk!
Kind of reminds me of the government funding Star wars programs that never produced anything but was credited for spending the Soviet Union into their grave because they couldn’t keep up. But I don’t think it’s going to work the same this time…
i understand that the thing that worked was mostly space-based surveillance