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Altman didn’t really make his money from tech. He’s basically a magic bean seller. He’ll be fine no matter what happens to AI. He’ll find a new grift and new suckers (famously one born every minute after all)
I’m sure he will, but at least this grift has run its course.
What’s a deepseek? Sounds like a search engine?
Deepseek is a Chinese AI company that released Deepseek R1, a direct competitor to ChatGPT.
You forgot to mention that it’s open source.
Is it actually open source, or are we using the fake definition of “open source AI” that the OSI has massaged into being so corpo-friendly that the training data itself can be kept a secret?
The code is open, weights are published, and so is the paper describing the algorithm. At the end of the day anybody can train their own model from scratch using open data if they don’t want to use the official one.
The training data is the important piece, and if that’s not open, then it’s not open source.
I don’t want the data to avoid using the official one. I want the data so that so that I can reproduce the model. Without the training data, you can’t reproduce the model, and if you can’t do that, it’s not open source.
The idea that a normal person can scrape the same amount and quality of data that any company or government can, and tune the weights enough to recreate the model is absurd.
What ultimately matters is the algorithm that makes DeepSeek efficient. Models come and go very quickly, and that part isn’t all that valuable. If people are serious about wanting to have a fully open model then they can build it. You can use stuff like Petals to distribute the work of training too.
That’s fine if you think the algorithm is the most important thing. I think the training data is equally important, and I’m so frustrated by the bastardization of the meaning of “open source” as it’s applied to LLMs.
It’s like if a normal software product provides a thin wrapper over a proprietary library that you must link against calling their project open source. The wrapper is open, but the actual substance of what provides the functionality isn’t.
It’d be fine if we could just use more honest language like “open weight”, but “open source” means something different.
I’m not seeing the training data here… so it looks like the answer is yes, it’s not actually open source.
Nice! What are they competing for? I’m new to this AI business thing.
So far, they are training models extremely efficiently while having US gatekeeping their GPUs and doing everything they can to slow their progress. Any innovation in having efficient models to operate and train is great for accessibility of the technology and to reduce the environment impacts of this (so far) very wasteful tech.
Market share, in a speculated market to be in the future.
Deepseek is a Chinese AI company
Oh. So, military, then.
You can say the same thing about any US AI company. Of course the local terrorists want in
Based on what info?
How nice of the Chinese military to make their weapon open source and release it to the world lmao
Come on, OP, Altman is still a billionaire. If he got out of the game right now, with OpenAi still unprofitable, he’d still have enough wealth for a dozen generations.
He’s a billionaire based on the valuation of OpenAI, if the company fizzles so does his wealth.
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I tried DeepSeek, and immediately fell in love… My only nitpick is that images have to have text on them, otherwise it complains, but for the price of free, I’m basically just asking for too much. Contemporaries be damned.
The bubble must be repaired. Pump more cash in!
Free…aint nothing free in this world!
All things cost your money, your data, or your soul. And those at the top love nothing more than to trick us into paying all three at once
We doing paid promotions or something on Lemmy now? You sure seem to be pushing this DeepSeek thing pretty hard, op.
That’s right I’m a huge open source shill.
None of this has anything to do with the model being open source or not, plenty of other people have already disputed that claim.
It’s a model that outperforms the other ones in a bunch of areas with a smaller footprint and which was trained for less than a twentieth of the price, and then it was released as open source.
If it were European or US made nobody would deem it suspicious if somebody talked about it all month, but it’s a Chinese breakthrough and god forbid you talk about it for three days
It has everything to do with the tech being open. You can dispute it all you like, but the fact is that all the code and research behind it is open. Anybody could build a new model from scratch using open data if they wanted to. That’s what matters.
I’m commenting on the odd nature of the post and your behavior in the comments, pointing out that it comes across as more a shallow advertisement than a sincere endorsement, that is all. I don’t know enough about DeepSeek to discuss it meaningfully, nor do I have enough evidence to decide upon its open source status.
I don’t really care what you think bud. Stay in your lane.
You might have a far more positive interaction with the community if you learned to listen first before jumping on the defensive
Pretty much all my interactions with the community here have been positive, aside from a few toxic trolls such as yourself. Maybe take your own advice there champ.
Deepseek collects and process all the data you sent to their LLN even from API calls. It is a no-go for most of businesses applications. For example, OpenAI and Anyhropic do not collect or process anyhow data sent via API and there is an opy-ouy button in their settings that allows to avoid processing of the data sent via UI.
You can run 'em locally, tho, if their gh page is to be believed. And this way you can make sure nothing gets even sent to their servers, and not just believe nothing is processed.
I got it running with ollama locally, works as advertised
I’m too lazy to look for any of their documentation about this, but it would be pretty bold to believe privacy or processing claims from OpenAI or similar AI orgs, given their history flouting copyright.
Silicon valley more generally just breaks laws and regulations to “disrupt”. Why wouldn’t an org like OpenAI at least leave a backdoor for themselves to process API requests down the road as a policy change? Not that they would need to, but it’s not uncommon for a co to leave an escape hatch in their policies.
DeepSeek is an open source project that anybody can run, and it’s performant enough that even running the full model is cheap enough for any company to do.
Since it’s open source is there a way for companies to adjust so it doesn’t intentionally avoid saying anything bad about China?
Anybody can adjust the weights any way they want.
That doesn’t mean it’s straightforward, or even possible, to entirely remove the censorship that’s baked into the model.
People saying truisms that confirm their biases about shit they clearly know nothing about? I thought I’d left reddit.
It doesn’t mean it’s easy, but it is certainly possible if somebody was dedicated enough. At the end of the day you could even use the open source code DeepSeek published and your own training data to train a whole new model with whatever biases you like.
“It’s possible, you just have to train your own model.”
Which is almost as much work as you would have to do if you were to start from scratch.
It’s obviously not since the whole reason DeepSeek is interesting is the new mixture of experts algorithm that it introduces. If you don’t understand the subject then maybe spend a bit of time learning about it instead of adding noise to the discussion?
If it was actually programed that way then yes you could go in and adjust that, but the model itself is not censored that way and has no problem describing all sorts of Chinese tabboo subjects.
It should be repeated: no American corporation is going to let their employees put data into DeepSeek.
Accept this truth. The LLM you can download and run locally is not the same as what you’re getting on their site. If it is, it’s shit, because I’ve been testing r1 in ollama and it’s trash.
It should be repeated: anybody can run DeepSeek themselves on premise. You have absolutely no clue what you’re talking about. Keep on coping there though, it’s pretty adorable.
Where do I find this opy ouy button? Sounds tasty
