alt Hacker NewsThe "Deepseek moment" is just one year ago today!
Coincidence or not, let's just marvel for a second over this amount of magic/technology that's being given away for free... and how liberating and different this is than OpenAI and others that were closed to "protect us all".
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It’s not coincidence. Chinese companies tend to do big releases before Chinese new year. So expect more to come before Feb 17.
I am convinced that was mostly just marketing. No one uses deepseek as far as I can tell. People are not running it locally. People choose GPT/Gemini/Claude/Grok if you are giving your data away anyway.
My biggest source of my conspiracy is that I made a reddit thread asking a question: "Why all the deepseek hype" or something like that. And to this day, I get odd, 'pro deepseek' comments from accounts only used every few months. Its not like this was some highly upvoted topic that is in the 'Top'.
I'd put that deepseek marketing on-par with an Apple marketing campaign.
I mean, there are credible safety issues here. A Kimi fine-tune will absolutely be able to help people do cybersecurity related attacks - very good ones.
In a few years, or less, biological attacks and other sorts of attacks will be plausible with the help of these agents.
Chinese companies aren't humanitarian endeavors.
What amazes me is why would someone spend millions to train this model and give it away for free. What is the business here?