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Written by bitzero on 2025-01-27 at 17:54

Big American AI companies have used the same approach corporations have with anything else: throw more and more money, infrastructure and computing power to solve problems (any problem) with brute force. Costs and externalities don't matter because, hey, investors and marketing.

Then, of course it comes out some small company proving that reasoning and optimization are more effective than brute force. Even if DeepSeek is much worse that we see now, it's still a proof that techbros are gaslighting the market selling inefficient stuff at high prices just because they can. And there's too much money involved to officially say that the presumed Kings have always been naked.

Mind you: we didn't actually need a DeepSeek to understand the trick. Just have a look at open source AI models' performance compared to proprietary (and supposedly more expensively but much better trained) ones: less than 5% difference for the best "reasoning" models. The market was already hyperinflated. #ai

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