[archerx]

They are self financed, the company that makes DeepSeek is a finance company that trades on the markets.

[rsanek]

The CCP's approach has historically been to subsidize their companies far more than other countries do. Why would LLMs be any different?

https://www.oecd.org/en/data/dashboards/magic-database-indus...

[declan_roberts]

Access to everything every American company feeds into the AI is well worth it to the CCP.

[baxtr]

Even if they were fully self-financed, which isn’t the case, they would expect something in return.

[nickthegreek]

You can give them money by using their api. Just because their model is open, doesn’t mean they are a non profit.

[archerx]

Not everyone has the American “fuck you got mine” zero sum game attitude. Also they’re making some of the American and European AI companies look bad which they can leverage with their trades if they wanted to.