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I don’t think it’s marketing alone. I do genuinely think safety was a priority when they were small. But I’d be a fool to ignore that greed has taken over and t
by sheepscreek 24d ago
I don’t think it’s marketing alone. I do genuinely think safety was a priority when they were small. But I’d be a fool to ignore that greed has taken over and their inner competitiveness doesn’t let them fall behind a competitor.
DeepSeek is maybe the only unique company here. They are content with exactly where they are. They don’t want to grow ginormous. Their goal is to be the affordable workhorse and their competition is with themselves. They’ve mentioned before how their business is profitable and all hardware costs get absorbed in 10 months. Pretty incredible. I have a ton of respect for their unassuming founder.
- F7F7F7 24d ago"But but but China..." or something.
- cicko 24d agosomething
- letmevoteplease 24d agoI also like DeepSeek, but I'll note their stated goal is to develop AGI, and the founder (already China’s fifth-richest person) has stated, "I believe the business opportunities here are large enough-if the AI era will produce many trillion-dollar companies, I think we will be one of them."[1] These are not humble ambitions. [1] https://liangwenfeng.art/ch11.en https://liangwenfeng.art/ch11.en
- hgoel 24d agoI'm not fully convinced about the greed explanation. It seems to be unrealistic to me that greed can be at a level that the AI frontier (at least in the West) almost uniformly agrees (often with a smug smile,) that they are actively working on killing their loved ones within a decade. You don't see this kind of behavior in other frontier research areas... biochemists aren't smugly boasting about the potential of developing superviruses, climate scientists do not sound smug and excited when they beg the world to get more serious about climate change, etc