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What a stretch. One Chinese model makes a breakthrough in efficiency and suddenly China has all the best people in the world?

What about all the people who invented LLMs and all the necessary hardware here in the US? What about all the models that leapfrog each other in the US every few months?

One breakthrough implies that they had a great idea and implemented it well. It doesn’t imply anything more than that.






I can't say about how good they are, but over 400,000 CS graduates in China [1] per year sounds like a lot. https://www.ctol.digital/news/chinas-it-boom-slows-computer-...

The ones I work with are very good :)

Chinese tech companies are also investing into AI. DeepSeek team isn't the only one (and probably the least funded one?) within mainland. This is mostly a challenge to the "American AI is yeas ahead" illusion, and a show that maybe investing only in American companies isn't the smartest method, as others might beat them in their own game.

It's not just one model, though. DeepSeek is the hot story today but Qwen's QwQ also punched above its weight.



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