DeepSeek launched a free, open-source large language model in late December, claiming it was developed in just two months at a cost of under $6 million.
I’m not sure swapping out one set of tech bros for another set is changing all that much?
I think a lot of the costs of LLMs was always going to drive toward much lower numbers even given the software techniques more or less staying the same, given how the costs of electronics go…I already could run several models on hardware that I bought several years ago.
I do think it holds a lot of promise when properly applied, but yeah, a lot of the speculation is from the usual assholes hoping to “disrupt” things by throwing nearly everyone out of a job. I’m not sure these Chinese tech bros are going to be any more benevolent (in the long term) than the current set in the U.S. OpenAI started as a non-profit…
I’m not sure swapping out one set of tech bros for another set is changing all that much?
I think a lot of the costs of LLMs was always going to drive toward much lower numbers even given the software techniques more or less staying the same, given how the costs of electronics go…I already could run several models on hardware that I bought several years ago.
I do think it holds a lot of promise when properly applied, but yeah, a lot of the speculation is from the usual assholes hoping to “disrupt” things by throwing nearly everyone out of a job. I’m not sure these Chinese tech bros are going to be any more benevolent (in the long term) than the current set in the U.S. OpenAI started as a non-profit…