[ExI] stargate

[Keith Henson]

"US is throwing money "

But none or very little is coming from the government.

Keith

On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 12:08, efc--- via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >> Fascinating! Given all the money that has been invested, I wonder what
> > return on investment they are counting on and how long the investment
> > horizon is?
> >
> > Will be a spectacular implosion if/when we hit the next AI winter!
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> AH!  It becomes clear now.
> There is a tech war on between China and the US to develop AGI.
> China has just released an open-source AI that is approx equal to the
> OpenAI o1 model.
> And it is charging users around one-thirtieth of what o1 costs to run.
> The US is throwing money at AI in panic to get to AGI before the Chinese.
>
> Do a search for -  Deepseek R1 versus OpenAI o1 AI
> to find many news reports.
> The race is on!
> BillK
>
> <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00229-6>
> Quote:
> 23 January 2025
> China’s cheap, open AI model DeepSeek thrills scientists
> DeepSeek-R1 performs reasoning tasks at the same level as OpenAI’s o1
> — and is open for researchers to examine.
> By Elizabeth Gibney
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