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DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

323 points · 116 comments · shenli3514

  1. swingboy · · focus · HN ↗
    Is there a lab more innovative than DeepSeek? Imagine if they had the same compute resources that Anthropic and OpenAI have.
    1. impulser_ · · focus · HN ↗
      Short term they might have less compute, but long term they will most definitely have more compute. They don't have to worry about energy, they don't have to worry about people blocking them building data centers the only thing stopping them is there no Chinese manufacturer that can produce a chip as good as Nvidia but I would bet that solved in a year or so.
      1. tucnak · · focus · HN ↗
        They don't have to worry about people blocking DC construction in the US either. All new AI datacenters are designated "dual-use" so the federal government is already letting local councils know to fuck off.
        1. ford · · focus · HN ↗
          It's hard enough to build them in the US that multiple companies are unironically spending 10s of millions of dollars to try to build them in space

          Which cynics could say is marketing hype, but I tend to believe it's extremely difficult to build anything land/energy intensive in the modern United States

          1. klrefg · · focus · HN ↗
            Or some people have more money than sense. Building data centers on earth is trivial compared to getting the same amount of compute to space.
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