The shitstorm is of the highest category and pleasing to watch.
The main issue is that there is models can be produced (trained) at a fraction of the costs by just good and hardworking graduate students who did their homework.
It reminds me of legendary Andrew Ng, who was way above everyone else just by being smart, hardworking and systematic in building everything(deriving all the math) from scratch.
The Deepseek success has the same vibes. They just done it systematically.
Sam is screaming and whining because he will face the costs questions. It is not just costs, it is a exuberant lifestyle of a “tech geniuses” all these US fucks have got just by the virtue of studying in the right colleges at the right time.
And yet, “ordinary people” in the “second world” could produce similar results withput burning hundreds of millions of dollars, including on paying to “talking heads” and just abstract bullshitters like Slutsker, Karpathy (yes, yes, I know he wasn’t involved) and who not.
The lesson is that it is all just simple math and directed data structures, and, again, “ordinary well educated people” can do it on par with all these clowns.
Good to see it.