[i5heu]

I think it is because of the Chinese new year. The Chinese labs like to publish their models arround the Chinese new year, and the US labs do not want to let a DeepSeek R1 (20 January 2025) impact event happen again, so i guess they publish models that are more capable then what they imagine Chinese labs are yet capable of producing.

[woah]

Singularity or just Chinese New Year?

[syndacks]

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday, during Chinese New Year

[kristopolous]

I guess. Deepseek v3 was released on boxing day a month prior

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news1226

[littlestymaar]

And made almost zero impact, it was just a bigger version of Deepseek V2 and when mostly unnoticed because its performances weren't particularly notable especially for its size.

It was R1 with its RL-training that made the news and crashed the srock market.

[dboreham]

Aren't we saying "lunar new year" now?

[Cyphase]

I don't think so; there are different lunar calendars.

[keithluu]

In fact, many Asian countries use lunisolar calendars, which basically follow the moon for the months but add an extra month every few years so the seasons don't drift.

As these calendars also rely on time zones for date calculation, there are rare occasions where the New Year start date differs by an entire month between 2 countries.

[lifthrasiir]

If that's a sole problem, it should be called "Chinese-Japanese-Korean-whateverelse new year" instead. Maybe "East Asian new year" for short. (Not that there are absolutely no discrepancies within them, but they are so similar enough that new year's day almost always coincide.)

[walthamstow]

It's not Japanese either.

This non-problem sounds like it's on the same scale as "The British Isles", a term which is mildly annoying to Irish people but in common use everywhere else.