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The AI Race Just Got Awkward

412 points · 463 comments · allisdust

  1. amelius · · 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. carbonguy · · focus · HN ↗
      My immediate midwit take is: doesn't matter if it helps Anthropic/OpenAI if it helps DeepSeek more, relatively. Making open-weights models even cheaper and easier to run expands that "market" and increases competitive pressure on the Big Two, who still have to charge money.
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