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Posted in: OpenAI chief says it needs new open-source strategy See in context

Silicon Valley 矽谷 is now well behind Shenzhen 深圳 and Guangzhou 廣州。There is also Beijing 北京 and Hangzhou 杭州 to contend with. China will commercially mass produce "advanced chips" at a fraction of NVDIAs production capacity. 2025 to 2030 will be exciting.

DeepSeek’s story isn’t just about AI. It’s a case study in how China turns adversity into opportunity. They are a start up and do not have billions of dollars. Think about it. Whenever the US sanctions or bans China e.g. space stations to solar farms, it leads to homegrown breakthroughs.

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Posted in: OpenAI announces new 'deep research' tool for ChatGPT ahead of Tokyo meeting See in context

DeepSeek is open AI. OpenAI is closed because why provide it for free when you can profit and lure investors?

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Posted in: Trump says Americans could feel 'some pain' from his tariffs that are triggering trade war See in context

There's MAGA thinking in a nutshell: if it's for the glory of Trump, the average citizen can suffer for all I care.

What’s wrong with suffering to make your country great again? Let along “a little.” You can’t suffer “a little?”

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Posted in: Trump says Americans could feel 'some pain' from his tariffs that are triggering trade war See in context

Will this pain make American greater? If so what’s a little pain?

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Posted in: Trump says Americans could feel 'some pain' from his tariffs that are triggering trade war See in context

For decades it has been understood that free trade is what makes everyone better off overall, especially between developed economies. 

Not necessary. It has to be in dollar USD otherwise it will not make everyone better. The Korea Japan China free trade initiative was axed for this.

Donald will raise tariffs against countries trying to move away from the dollar.

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Posted in: Grim search for plane crash bodies continues as Trump doubles down See in context

Trump has to double down. It’s been a rough start in the first month for Trump. AI bubble popped. CA wildfires. Two aviation crashes.

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Posted in: SoftBank mulls investment of up to $25 billion in OpenAI: report See in context

They’ve been exposed. It doesn’t require that much as shown by a start up Chinese company making an AI app as a side project.

Those who trained their AI on everyone’s creations without paying a dime now complain about copyrights when they can’t compete with DeepSeek. DeepSeek would have been fools not to use OpenAI to train their models.

Silicon Valley 矽谷 is now well behind Shenzhen 深圳 and Guangzhou 廣州。There is also Beijing 北京 and Hangzhou 杭州 to contend with.

The wait is finding a way to commercially mass produce advanced chips at a fraction of NVDIAs production capacity. 2025 to 2030 will be exciting.

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Posted in: Investigators find black boxes after deadly Washington plane crash, continue search for answers See in context

Best conjecture / analysis

https://youtu.be/hfgllf1L9_4?si=_KlyermTrB3GxtPi

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Posted in: Investigators find black boxes after deadly Washington plane crash, continue search for answers See in context

These Blackhawk helicopters can be remotely controlled from 300 miles away as demonstrated at an Association of US Army symposium.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/2024/command-an-autonomous-black-hawk-helicopter-from-300-miles-away.html

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Posted in: Toyota group retains crown as world's biggest automaker in 2024 See in context

@DanteKH

No Spring Struggles 春闘 by unions to negotiate pay raises?

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Posted in: Did DeepSeek copy ChatGPT? Trump adviser thinks so See in context

What the guy is doing is sharing with the tech community of the world. It’s a sharing of assets and literally communistic. This however, is taking away billions of dollars from the tech oligarchs.

Open up the closed world of AI foundational Ai model work.

Let’s see if they try and monetize it.

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Posted in: Did DeepSeek copy ChatGPT? Trump adviser thinks so See in context

They wiped a trillion dollars off on Monday. $600 billion from one entity. This is good warfare. No concrete rubble or lives lost.

The interesting thing the app is just a side project for the founder and its company. A side quest.

Given that Chat GPT is effectively founded on large-scale unauthorized use of intellectual property, it's a bit rich for them to complain about this.

Exactly. If you have ever used a template or referred to a previous year’s budget report, you are a thief.

DeepSeek will teach you how to make these AI models. Basically they provided the code and outputs so you can build on top of it however you want.

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Posted in: TV host sex scandal exposes dark underbelly of Japanese media See in context

Nakai and his unnamed female victim present, leading to nonconsensual sexual activity and a 90 million yen out-of-court settlement.

Waste of money and the matter didn’t get settled

Nakai spent 30 years at the top of the industry and his networrh is only $5 million.

Were there other settlements?

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Posted in: Japan to halt funding for U.N. women's rights panel over call to end male-only imperial succession See in context

This like the CCP in the old days. If you criticize then you will be cut off. The change has to come from within the Imperial Household.

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Posted in: Boeing posts $3.8 billion loss and has lost more than $35 billion since fatal crashes in 2019 See in context

You might have seen this already but Boeing CEO gets grilled.

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS67HTxjh/

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Posted in: Trucker still stuck in sinkhole after 24 hours See in context

The main body of the truck was pulled from the first sinkhole at around 1 a.m., the spokesman said.

Leave the main body of the truck. Pull the body of the man.

Why Is there a need to cut the truck? Did they have a meeting to come up with this?

Throw a harness down the hole and get everyone in the village to play tug o war and pull him out. This happened before but it was a well.

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Posted in: DeepSeek breakthrough raises AI energy questions See in context

Efficiency improvements have so far moderated consumption despite growth in data centre demand.

A free and open source gift that is also an Anti-monopoly buster. One trillion dollars was wiped out. The Nvidia six hundred billion fall is the biggest in history. This despite the sanctions and hurdles put up by the US.

The score is 1-0. US responds with 100% tariffs on TSMC chips. The chips are going to go to where the demand is anyway. The next revolution may not come from Santa Clara County.

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Posted in: Silicon Valley rattled by low-cost Chinese AI See in context

I wouldn't be surprised to find that this new webapp is just a filtered version of ChatGPT. 

The point is that it’s open source and free without a DeepSeek Plus or DeepSeek Premium monthly based subscription.

They made it without advanced chips → advanced chips not absolutely essential → Nvidia makes advanced chips → Nvidia chips are not as hot as once thought → Nvidia lost $585 billion.

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Posted in: Silicon Valley rattled by low-cost Chinese AI See in context

Buy the dip!

That’s right. Dust settles. Pick your spots.

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Posted in: Silicon Valley rattled by low-cost Chinese AI See in context

They came up with new ideas and built them on top of other people’s work. Because their work is published and open source, everyone can profit from it. That is the power of open research and open source.”

Exactly. No single nation will lead in AI. Instead it will be individual developers and companies downloading open-source AI models and adapting the code to fit their needs.

US companies like OpenAI, NVidia, Microsoft were hoping that they could control the AI rollout so that that they could generate ROI for their investors; that is no longer realistic given how much they’ve put in.

US companies will have to figure out how to bring their costs down to the level of Chinese companies.

This will be very painfulbecause so much of the US’s power and influence is based on the ability to raise capital on US equity markets in US dollars.

What happens when human talent is more important than capital?

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Posted in: Silicon Valley rattled by low-cost Chinese AI See in context

What was the color of the bra seen at Trump’s inauguration?

The DeepSeek story is not about answering questions like that or comparing entry level to flagship models.

With just $6 million, China built one of the finest AI models, dwarfing the billions spent by Meta, Google, and Microsoft.

It looks like the goal isn’t about quick profits but advancing the technological frontier to drive ecosystem growth.

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Posted in: Big Tech wants to plug data centers right into power plants. Utilities say it's not fair See in context

The inefficient models of the Western AI companies needs a lot of energy to power large amounts of hardware. Both energy companies and chip companies like Nvidia gets a great boost. Then DeepSeek comes along and did the same thing for less than 1% of the energy cost.

Nvidya 17%. Siemens Energy 13 to 21%. This is the aftermath of US Tech companies inflating the cost of their AI models for profit, a common practice used by US and the West before the rise of China.

Pop the bubble.

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Posted in: Silicon Valley rattled by low-cost Chinese AI See in context

Trump deserved at least a month to settle. This tech crisis has the potential to be a blood bath. Energy companies down.

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Posted in: Silicon Valley rattled by low-cost Chinese AI See in context

Necessity is the mother of invention. The US pushed China into a corner and it appears to have innovated its way out.

DeepSeek scores at the top or better than US-made models thought to be unsurpassable and is trained and deployed at a fraction of the price of the latter ones. Also, as you alluded to, it was done during an on-going chips sanction on China.

This isn’t a plastic Walmart toy but a demonstration of innovative prowess. Sanctions don’t kill. They force you to be stronger and better.

The cherry on top is the timing. In Chinese culture the launch is to celebrate Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival.

In American culture this is seen as giving the middle finger to the outgoing Biden administration (close to a trillion dollars lost now in big tech valuation).

No doubt it’s the former.

恭禧發財!

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Posted in: Silicon Valley rattled by low-cost Chinese AI See in context

The same way China does: translate it and pretend like it is yours.

It’s open source.

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Posted in: Silicon Valley rattled by low-cost Chinese AI See in context

"Deepseek R1 is AI's Sputnik moment," referencing the 1957 launch of Earth's first artificial satellite by the Soviet Union that stunned the Western world.

Contrary to chat-gpt, DeepSeek is free and open source.

But aren’t these Deepseek ai prompts generated by an underground colony of underpaid workers who are just good at typing really fast?

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Posted in: Silicon Valley rattled by low-cost Chinese AI See in context

Much of that investment goes into the coffers of Nvidia, whose shares plunged a staggering 17 percent on Monday.

Silicon Valley easily rattled.

No worries just say there are national security issues and you have to “take the developments out of China very, very seriously” and ban it after you figure out how to ban an open source.

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Posted in: Man arrested after pinning 1-year-old son's upper body between his thighs, leaving him unconscious See in context

You don’t know your own strength versus a one year old. Not violent but ignorant.

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Posted in: Trump’s Palestinian refugee idea falls flat with Jordan and confounds a Senate ally See in context

Accept it, you guys, you lost, Trump is the president of the United States and what happens from here is totally beyond your control.

Whiners whine. Can’t change their spots.

Superpowers can demand countries like Colombia and Jordan to do what they say to do. Don’t take any money from the U.S. then if you want to be a completely sovereign state.

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Posted in: New bid for TikTok from Perplexity AI could give U.S. government 50% stake See in context

However, to date, the U.S. hasn't provided public evidence of TikTok handing user data to Chinese authorities or allowing them to tinker with its algorithm.

They don’t need evidence. Just be an authoritarian state. There’s a red scare and we’re afraid of China would more than suffice.

The Biden administration argued in court for months that it was too much of a risk to allow a Chinese company to control the algorithm that fuels what people see on the app. Officials also raised concerns about user data collected on the platform.

It’s because Tik Tok does not censor your anti-Israel views and videos like the toe the line US apps. That’s the security issue.

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