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As with most early tech of a particular category, it's not the current capabilities that are the point but the direction of travel.

DeepSeek has upended the conventional wisdom about model performance with respect to training, and it's a shock to the system. It demonstrates something that has become obvious: you don't need massive scale or funding to innovate and have impact, you just need good ideas.




I guess this is why Googles CEO said that they have no LLM moat, as cleverness is not a moat.




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