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by FergusArgyll 310 days ago
Deepseek was never SOTA, it was a big deal because it was from China but it wasn't a breakthrough in any sense
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Isn't the fact that it produced similar performance about 70x more cheaply a breakthrough? In the same way that the Hall-Héroult process was a breakthrough. Not like we didn't have aluminum before 1886.