• Dave@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    DeepSeek shook the AI world because it’s cheaper, not because it’s open source.

    And it’s not really open source either. Sure, the weights are open, but the training materials aren’t. Good look looking at the weights and figuring things out.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      13 days ago

      I think it’s both. OpenAI was valued at a certain point because of a perceived moat of training costs. The cheapness killed the myth, but open sourcing it was the coup de grace as they couldn’t use the courts to put the genie back into the bottle.

    • Hackworth@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      True, but they also released a paper that detailed their training methods. Is the paper sufficiently detailed such that others could reproduce those methods? Beats me.