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There is no subsidy in interference. Serving existing models is a highly profitable business. The proofs are many independent companies serving models for profi

There is no subsidy in interference. Serving existing models is a highly profitable business. The proofs are many independent companies serving models for profit. What is expensive is model development and training, but again, that's nothing inherent to technology. It's just that Anthropic and other western vendors made a business decision to use cheap investors money to brute force a new model development and market grab instead of investing in cost optimizations for model training and inference like Chinese model developers and providers.

eigencoder 5mo ago
As I understand it, those cost optimizations relied on someone else brute forcing new model development. If everyone was trying to do it cheaper, we wouldn't have the models we have today.
zaphar 5mo ago
Many of the chinese developers are just drafting off of Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini though. Distillation is leveraging those models to achieve their leaps in training. It's not obvious to me that Anthropic and do the same. Someone has to build the advanced model to draft off of.
- miroljub 5mo ago
  Of course Anthropic is doing the same. Just ask Claude in Chinese to introduce himself and tell you what he does and how it can help you. There's a good chance that it will tell you its name is DeepSeek ;)
  - zaphar 5mo ago
    A hallucination is not an indicator of distillation...
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