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Bellum_Romanum

Brigadier
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To understand how America tech works, I recommend the documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019). It shows how a company built on nothing managed to secure billions in funding, including money from people like Rupert Murdoch, Larry Ellison, Betsy DeVos, the Walton family, Carlos Slim, Tim Draper, Robert Kraft, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and James Mattis.
I saw the documentary and whatever respect I had for Gen.Mattis evaporated after learning that he was so convinced by the vaporware the charlatan was selling that I thought to myself: this dude was made out in all western media as this "Warrior Scholar" when he's dumb as a rock.
 

Chevalier

Major
Registered Member
So deepseek comes out and wipes off 17% of Nvidia stock and 1 trillion worth of USD from the stock market.

Now Trump says he's gonna put tariffs on Taiwan semiconductors.

What on earth is going on? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here.
Because trump is an ethnonationalist who doesn’t see countries, he only sees race and that’s why he’s so partial to Russia. People like trump only care about white primacy, they don’t care about anything else, as far as he’s concerned, Taiwan are as complicit as Chinese Americans in the success of deepseek.
 

plawolf

Lieutenant General

That’s overthinking it. The training cost datapoint alone is meaningless without the performance capabilities of the AI model to out it into context. Anyone with money can blow $5.5m training up an utterly useless AI model that is light years behind OpenAI and no one would care.

It’s only because the DeepSeek AI model is better than OpenAI’s that the true implications are becoming known.

So I don’t think anyone outside of Liang’s own hedge fund and maybe people close to him and his team would have had enough info to make such a bet. Maybe rumours were circulating beforehand, but I think few would have made huge bets against the market on just rumours considering what DeepSeek achieved was basically not just considered impossible but was actually unthinkable according to the western AI expects across the board before they proved it was possible.

Some might have lucked out on when they sold their stakes in Nvidia, but I would be amazed if many big shorts were taken against it.
 
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