Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) last December. They just dropped the first of their hotly anticipated V4 series in the shape of two …
Really seems like Deepseek is one of the only vendors actually focusing on performance per unit compute power and not just throwing infinite compute power at the problem. Calling it now, when the bubble bursts they’ll be one of the few to make it out with a usable product.
For sure, they’ve probably dropped more significant papers in the past year than any other groups. It does seem like the mindset in China is very different overall though. In the states, it’s basically a cult at this point where they’re trying to build a god with AGI. In China, it’s just treated like another tool for automation and companies see it as common infrastructure, akin to Linux, that people will build interesting things on. Hence why pretty much all the models in China re developed on open basis. Everybody there seems to realize that there’s no real path towards monetizing the models themselves.
Really seems like Deepseek is one of the only vendors actually focusing on performance per unit compute power and not just throwing infinite compute power at the problem. Calling it now, when the bubble bursts they’ll be one of the few to make it out with a usable product.
For sure, they’ve probably dropped more significant papers in the past year than any other groups. It does seem like the mindset in China is very different overall though. In the states, it’s basically a cult at this point where they’re trying to build a god with AGI. In China, it’s just treated like another tool for automation and companies see it as common infrastructure, akin to Linux, that people will build interesting things on. Hence why pretty much all the models in China re developed on open basis. Everybody there seems to realize that there’s no real path towards monetizing the models themselves.