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They are self financed, the company that makes DeepSeek is a finance company that trades on the markets.
by archerx 4mo ago
They are self financed, the company that makes DeepSeek is a finance company that trades on the markets.
- rsanek 4mo agoThe CCP's approach has historically been to subsidize their companies far more than other countries do. Why would LLMs be any different? https://www.oecd.org/en/data/dashboards/magic-database-industrial-subsidies.html https://www.oecd.org/en/data/dashboards/magic-database-indus...
- declan_roberts 4mo agoAccess to everything every American company feeds into the AI is well worth it to the CCP.
- u8080 4mo agoAccording to EU statistics, yeah
- dgellow 4mo agoOECD isn’t the EU. And regarding the dataset: > Unlike most OECD databases, which rely on government data provided at country-level, the OECD MAGIC database uses firm-level data. The subsidy estimates included in the database are based on raw data obtained from firms’ annual reports, financial statements, bond prospectuses, IPO prospectuses, etc. The data are collected and verified manually by the OECD to maximise accuracy, consistency, and comparability. In some cases, additional information is also obtained from government databases, either to verify the firm-level information or to complement it. Care is taken to avoid double-counting where the data mix corporate and government sources.
- nixon_why69 4mo agoDoes that figure hold up when we look at Silicon Valley financing? Uber alone was subsidized to the tune of billions. Let alone the recent batch where we're into hundreds of billions.
- eagleal 4mo agoEven the latest World Bank report, the defacto neoliberal institution, recognized a couple of months ago that leaving the industries focus be dictaed by purely capital decisions was bad, as in _really_ bad.
- baxtr 4mo agoEven if they were fully self-financed, which isn’t the case, they would expect something in return.
- archerx 4mo agoNot everyone has the American “fuck you got mine” zero sum game attitude. Also they’re making some of the American and European AI companies look bad which they can leverage with their trades if they wanted to.
- nickthegreek 4mo agoYou can give them money by using their api. Just because their model is open, doesn’t mean they are a non profit.