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1. amelius · 1790784625 · focus · HN ↗

   > So the Chinese labs have thrown a lifeline to the Western loss-making labs, and I just have no clue as to why.

   Any ideas?

   1. pj_mukh · 1790785025 · focus · HN ↗

      Occam's razor: Going to closed-source just to hide KV-cache optimizations seems silly?

      1. twoodfin · 1790785536 · focus · HN ↗

         This looks like a speed run of the history of analytics DBMS’s.

         Once upon a time, everyone had a secret sauce in network or data encoding or query optimization, but in the last ~10 years computational physics and economics have basically decided the “correct” architecture and everyone (including OSS) has converged.

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