My work has already blocked it, but has no problems using AI hosted by a country whose leader is a convicted criminal with close ties to Russia and North Korea
You know, if the mainstream news spent this amount of oxygen explaining that it can be downloaded in various sizes and run securely, the whole world would be in a much better situation.
I am not saying that China don't do some of the things they are accused of, but the amount of anti-China fear in Western nations is only hurting ourselves.
It's open source and researchers are already duplicating the process, so I'm not sure if that will ever happen.
They're gonna ban access to the official service provided by a Chinese company. That's what this is about. The biggest fear is that everybody starts using DeepSeek, and then it will muscle out US companies that fell behind. Once people start using their service, they'll have little reason to switch to something else going forward. Banning it is a protectionist measure that allows US companies to catch up.
You cannot have good fast and free. Pick two.
That's generally true under the paradigm of profit maximization unless you reach some sort of insane tech breakthrough, which deepseek seems to have accomplished
There’s always a catch. Subsidized by the government for now? What’s the end game? Free AI for all? No one is that kind.
