The message that OpenAI, Nvidia, and others which bet big on AI delivered was that no one else could run AI because only they had the resources to do that. They claimed to have a physical monopoly, and no one else would be able to compete. Enter Deepseek doing exactly what OpenAI and Nvidia said was impossible. Suddenly there is competition and that scared investors because their investments into AI are not guaranteed wins anymore. It doesn’t matter that it’s derivative, it’s competition.
Oh I totally agree, I probably could have made my comment less argumentative. It’s not truly revolutionary until someone can produce an AI training method that doesn’t consume the energy of a small nation to get results in a reasonable amount of time. Which isn’t even mentioning the fact that these large data sets already include everything and that’s not enough. I’m glad that there’s a competitive project even if I’m going to wait a while and let smarter people than me sus it out.