Chinese systems account for 89 per cent of spending on open-source models, but the category is small compared with spending on proprietary models.
  • VOIDPTR@lemmy.ml
    6·
    15 hours ago

    I have been using DeepSeek, MiMo, GLM and other Chinese models for 6 months now and don’t see the reason to ever pay for US frontier models.

    • sudoer777@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      9 hours ago

      So far I’ve never seen DeepSeek V4.1 Flash really choke on anything I’ve handed it

  • Alex@lemmy.ml
    7·
    19 hours ago

    I do wonder what their funding strategy is? Is it just hosting the bigger foundation models? To me the most interesting aspect of the open models is taking the weights and creating specialised versions you can run locally on less compute.

    • Johnnyvibrant@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      8 hours ago

      I think deepseek is funded by a hedge fund, so im gonna assume its all about destabilising american businesses and therefore their share prices. Which seems to be working pretty well.

      • Alex@lemmy.ml
        1·
        8 hours ago

        What’s in it for the hedge fund? I assume even Chinese hedge funds want to make money and sure disrupting US competition might be a pathway to that but just comoditising everything doesn’t sound like a good route to getting your investment back.