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FergusArgyll on Aug 7, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: GPT-5

Deepseek was never SOTA, it was a big deal because it was from China but it wasn't a breakthrough in any sense

missedthecue on Aug 8, 2025 [–]

Isn't the fact that it produced similar performance about 70x more cheaply a breakthrough? In the same way that the Hall-Héroult process was a breakthrough. Not like we didn't have aluminum before 1886.

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