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[efc at disroot.org]

On Thu, 23 Jan 2025, BillK via extropy-chat 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!
>> _______________________________________________
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>
> 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.

Nothing new here... they are trying to "commoditize your complement" to 
ensure no one gets the ultimate prize and power.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mbYX3JnohWRF8KTT2/tech-economics-pattern-commoditize-your-complement 
.

> 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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