This is just silly. Deepseek has published so much regarding speeding up and making cheaper inference and people are still harping on the government subsidies thing.

So what's all the project Stargate stuff? Subsidies only work when China is doing it?

Deepseek is actively sacrificing performance for cost, which is very clear in their latest model releases. They are not attempting to get to number 1 in benchmarks, and they say it clearly in their own publications.

Furthermore, being open weight, anyone can sell qwen and deepseek compute, not just Ali and deepseek themselves.