[aprilfoo]

The current AI mega-buzz, fueled by fascinating technologies, finance and even geopolitics makes it difficult to have a serious analyze beyond opinions and reactions. But the shock waves of that announcement by a small tech company are quite interesting.

> In fact, making it easier and cheaper to build LLMs would erode their [OpenAI, Meta, Google etc] advantages!

The narrative until now was: AI requires enormous and cutting edge resources (money, energy), so only for the big boys and people who can talk multi-billions investments, so open source was not an option.

Some signs already appeared recently (plateau, bubble?), and Deepseek seems to show that this model is questionable.