As a user of several GPTs and subscriber to several, of course I had to check out the new bright shiny object. There seems to have been a lot of very fast reaction to this thing. Sometimes it’s useful to just take a moment and gain some perspective.
Last week, when DeepSeek released its open source AI model, it seemed like all hell broke loose in AI world. The quality of this Chinese-led effort seemed to be a surprise, especially given the apparent cost differences and supposedly use of much lesser compute infrastructure to create it. Various stock prices took hits, concerns about information sharing based on use of the DeepSeek product, similar to TikTok issues, were surfaced, and so on.
Let’s survey the issues and put some of this in perspective.
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