Article

2025-01-25 Cyber

China's DeepSeek Bombshell Rocks Trump's $500B AI Boondoggle

[Unz] The future of humanity is being decided as we speak. And it is not being decided on a battlefield in Eastern Europe, or the Middle East or the Taiwan Strait, but in the data centers and research facilities where technology experts create "the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of Artificial Intelligence." This is a full-blown, scorched-earth free-for-all that has already racked up a number of casualties though you wouldn’t know it from reading the headlines which typically ignore recent ’cataclysmic’ developments. But when President Trump announced the launching of a $500 billion AI infrastructure project (Stargate) on Tuesday just hours after China had released its DeepSeek R1—which "outperforms its rivals in advanced coding, math, and general knowledge capabilities"—it became painfully obvious that the battle for the future ’is on’ in a big way. And this is not a battle that either side can afford to lose. Here’s how technology expert Adam Button summed it up:

Imagine we’re back in 2017 and the iPhone X was just released. It was selling $999 and Apple was crushing sales and building a wide moat around its ecosystem.

Now imagine, just days later, another company introduced a phone and platform that was equal in every way if not better and the price was just $30.

That’s what unfolded in the AI space today. China’s DeepSeek released an opensource model that works on par with OpenAI’s latest models but costs a tiny fraction to operate. Moreover, you can even download it and run it free (or the cost of your electricity) for yourself.

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-01-25 05:13|| || Front Page|| [11165 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Cost to operate a trained LLM is one thing. Cost to update / extend its training is entirely another matter.

Posted by Omoluger Ulising2352 2025-01-25 10:47|| 2025-01-25 10:47|| Front Page Top

#2 I don’t do TikTok because I’m not keen to let CCP programmers root around my devices and information at the behest of their CCP masters. I wouldn’t play with a CCP artificial intelligence for the same reason. Since I’m not clever enough to harden my stuff against them, I prefer just to stay away. I avoid Android devices for similar reasons, which may be shutting the barn door after the horse escape, but it I’m at least not giving up without a fight.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-25 14:02|| 2025-01-25 14:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Android or iPhone, Google or Apple? Is there any real difference?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-01-25 14:12|| 2025-01-25 14:12|| Front Page Top

#4 CCP, NSA, FBI. Is there any real difference?

Posted by DooDahMan 2025-01-25 16:44|| 2025-01-25 16:44|| Front Page Top

03:42 Skidmark
03:31 Grom the Affective
03:28 Grom the Affective
03:27 Whiskey Mike
03:24 Grom the Affective
03:20 Grom the Affective
03:17 Grom the Affective
02:48 Grom the Affective
01:15 Seeking Cure For Ignorance
00:46 Anguper Hupomosing9418