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Meet DeepSeek: the Chinese start-up that is changing how AI models are trained (www.scmp.com)

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[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Good points. I had thought that China was always ahead, though. The Western companies just launched the public app thing in a flashier way, while in China, it's been used 'behind the scenes' rather than released for general public consumption. Now there's some Chinese competition for the public apps and they seem to be btfo the western versions.

That is, I'd thought that China's was ahead in AI since the start but the western LLMs took the spotlight for a while and now are losing it already to Chinese LLMs.

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Good distinction. China hasn't been behind in AI in general, just this new LLM stuff. But China also uses it's AI for more useful things instead of just advertisements and recommendation engines, though I'm sure they use it there too. But yeah, China is catching up on LLMs, and fast. The chip war has affected their ability to get faster chips, and catch up even faster, but the tech they have is sufficient, and improving faster than westerners predicted (As it always does, the west is WAY to confident in itself and WAY underestimates China's abilities)