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DeepSeek: 'Cheap' Chinese chatbot shocks AI world (www.bbc.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Maybe? I also suspect espionage, because it's be a relatively easy thing to steal and than finetune to look like your own thing. Cheaper labour is and was the main driver of China's growth, though - otherwise they wouldn't have the budget to subsidise much of anything.

[–] x00z 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sure there's people already trying to figure out if it's a derivative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, for sure. If they did copy it, and did it well, though, there really won't be a way to tell. If you already have a working full set of weights finetuning a slightly different net is a much smaller job, compute-wise.