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Look, the way this works is, we're gonna tell you it's totally hopeless to compete with us on training foundation models, you shouldn't try—and it's your job to try anyway."
Altman's response is blunt and laced with overconfidence
Funny how 'totally hopeless' turned into real competition in just over a year. The AI space is moving fast—centralised control is breaking down, but the question remains: who gets to define the future of AI governance?"
One comment sums it up
How is a small, smart team with a budget of $10 million could build something substantial within AI?” ... It's totally hopeless to compete with us on training foundation models.”
The old video from 2023 shows Sam Altman attending an event in India where he was asked ... He replied
Classic non-techie answer.” ... Actually, people like Sam Altman are responsible for creating artificial scarcity in the field of AI. Had OpenAI been an open-source organization, DeepSeek moment would have occurred much earlier.”
A third expressed ... A fourth wroteWe would like to bring to your attention a critical update regarding a new AI model called DeepSeek,
the email said
It's wild that hinting that a single (high-performing) LLM is able to achieve that performance without brute-forcing the shit out of thousands of GPUs is enough to cause this,
said Luccioni
Today's 'DeepSeek selloff' in the stock market -- attributed to DeepSeek V3/R1 disrupting the tech ecosystem -- is another sign that the application layer is a great place to be,
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To people who think 'China is surpassing the U.S. in AI,' the correct thought is 'open source models are surpassing closed ones,'
said Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, which has supported open sourcing with its own Llama models
Does this mean you don't need large GPU clusters for frontier LLMs? No, but you have to ensure that you're not wasteful with what you have, and this looks like a nice demonstration that there's still a lot to get through with both data and algorithms."
Andrej Karpathy who co-founded OpenAI, posted on X
It's not smarter than earlier models, just trained more cheaply,
said AI research scientist Gary MarcusTrying to show that the export controls are futile or counterproductive is a really important goal of Chinese foreign policy right now,
Allen said
The technology innovation is real, but the timing of the release is political in nature,
Gregory Allen, director of the Wadhwani AI Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Associated PressWe should be alarmed. Chinese AI technology integrating further into the UK and Western society is not just a bad idea - it’s a reckless one,
Ross Burley, Co-Founder of the Centre for Information Resilience, saidWe’ve seen time and again how Beijing weaponises its tech dominance for surveillance, control, and coercion, both domestically and abroad. Whether it’s through spyware-laden devices, state-sponsored cyber campaigns, or the misuse of AI to suppress dissent, China’s track record demonstrates that its technology is an extension of its geopolitical strategy,
he addedDeepSeek’s progress is big news, but not bad news for most of the AI ecosystem,
Bridgewater said in a note on Monday authored by Co-Chief Investment Officer Greg Jensen and Jas Sekhon, chief scientist of AIA Labs, a division within the hedge fund focused on developing and utilizing AI and machine learning technologies to generate investment strategies and insights
This may be especially true for Nvidia, because DeepSeek’s success may encourage companies to invest more in achieving efficiency gains by optimizing how AI software interacts with the hardware,
said the noteThat is the moment when AI adoption becomes as existential to everyone as it is today for Google and Microsoft. It is then that we expect the true bubble to manifest,
it saidIf you could do it cheaper, if you could do it (for) less (and) get to the same end result, I think that’s a good thing for us,
he told reporters on board Air Force One
I have it in my mind what it’s going to be but I won’t be setting it yet, but it’ll be enough to protect our country,
Mr Trump told reporters on Monday nightI do think there is a role for advancing fair access rulemaking that would make clear that you cannot debank based on whatever you want if you are a chartered national bank,
Chopra said