DeepSeek.
I’m not buying it.
Yes, they have a great model but the cost just doesn’t add up.
You can’t even buy a beach front home in California for $6,000,000 but apparently the trustworthy CCP built a better LLM than Meta for that price.
China has a long history of lying about technological advancements so it wouldn’t surprise me if this was the latest example of the CCP trying to act like they’re ahead of the world.
Am I denying that it can probably be done for cheaper than what we’re seeing right now? No. It probably can but this is not new information.
Zuckerberg and Sundar both admitted to overspending on AI. They both agreed they’d rather overspend than underspend on this technology and it’s clear the other big tech CEOs agree.
LLM’s aren’t the final boss of AI. Having the best LLM isn’t the goal of these big tech companies, they want more. Robots, autonomous cars, AI agents, etc. there’s much bigger fish than having the best LLM. If DeepSeek has the best LLM, cool but it wasn’t done for $6,000,000. There’s Nvidia chip export restrictions limiting the amount of GPU’s China can get, there’s no shot they’d admit to the actual cost of this LLM because it wouldn’t add up with the limited technology they’re able to access (legally).
DeepSeek is cool but I don’t think it’s going to crash the American stock market. A dip? Yes. If anything I think we could get some buying opportunities if there’s any persistent selling.
I’ll bet on American technology prevailing over any other country any day of the week and twice on Sundays.