Revealing optimizations similar to these would pretty much reduce their competitive position.
I suspect their tune will change if they ever take the lead..
US labs in Google, Meta and SpaceX are not leading, none of them managed to build something on par with GLM 5.2.
Care to explain to me why they still don't collaborate and still choose to do it in private?
I say this because we see the same thing used as an argument against China. "If they overtake us, they'll do imperialism (like us)." Again, it says more about us than them.
A better reading (IMHO) Of the situation is that China believes that AI shouldn't be used simply to mint a few more trillionaires but the benefits should be shared with society. Why do I say this? Because we now have 70+ years of China doing exactly that. The transformation in China all the way from rural villages to Tier 1 cities has been utterly astounding. China has lifted ~800M people out of extreme poverty.
In some ways we're at a similar point to the late 1990s and 2000s when Microsoft execs complained that Linux, being free, destroyed intellectual property value. Linux should be a perfect example of how people can and do act altruistically, or at least not in a way to bait-and-switch to enrich themselves.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistory/comments/1d26grm/in_the_...
What's with all the China glazing about this stuff? They release some open-source work and people act like they are suddenly the beacon of freedom and transparency.
Hopefully the experts here can offer insight. The above is just my hunch and I’m not a specialist in this field.
The American companies, from my impression don’t involve themselves with such lowly “hacks” because they have so much money to just push forward with doing everything on big heavy models that run on the most cutting edge nvidia chips that they can, the moment, kinda sorta get on demand (I say that in some degree of jest).
Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), Multi-Token prediction, MoE architecture are some of the most famous examples.
They don't have TPUs or access to the latest Vera Rubin GPUs either to get performance gains for free. All of the optimizations Deepseek have done are in software and it goes down to the PTX assembly level.
Compared to Anthropic who are celebrating in fixing a flickering issue in a terminal app which took months to fix.
It's funny, because if you ran Claude Code on a slow terminal, the cause of the flicker was obvious: They kept dumping the entire history of the chat back into the terminal in a number of situations, and relied on the terminal to them end up in the correct state.
More likely is that an AI generated codename is impossible to fix by humans, and SOTA was not able to figure it out until now.
What became clear when DeepSeek came onto the scene was that China was seeking to commoditize LLMs. They consider it an issue of national security not to be beholden to US tech companies when it comes to AI. And I, for one, fully endorse this policy.
Another data point on this is the black market for Claude tokens in China [1]. The chat logs themselves are a commodity to train models.
I believe that OpenAI in particular is a bet on a trillion dollar pot of gold that doesn't exist. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta will all be fine. Anthropic is in a far better position than OpenAI (IMHO) but if DeepSeek or some other Chinese open weight model gets as good at coding, they're in real trouble too.
anyone with IQ higher than 130 (thus qualified for actual AI R&D) would be questioning something obvious here -
if they are already doing such dodgy stuff with the aim to maximize profits, why would those resellers have large amount of logs with actual American model responses to sell to those AI labs in the first place. shouldn't they just post train & customize some leading Chinese open source models to pretend to be Opus or GPT for the vast majority of their users (as classified by some models) who don't know much about expected Opus behaviours & not skilled enough to tell the differences?
that is actually the interesting bit not covered in your censored version of the story line, it is also what happens on the ground. your censored version of the story implies that those dodgy resellers using stolen credit cards, pooling accounts with stolen IDs and illegally selling very personal logs would somehow be honest enough to spend extra $ to ensure their victims (aka paying users) can actually use real Opus and GPT. LOL
dude, you failed this IQ test miserably.
It's drastically reduced my AI spend. I went from spending $40/day to $10/day.
I second ccusage, it's nice
Flash: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark
Pro: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-DSpark
Excited to see if this makes it into DwarfStar for local inference, have been using the flash model extensively since the 2-bit quants were made available by antirez.
Guessing the timing isn't accidental. Demonstrated openness vs harsh regulation
This paper seems to be an improvement to speculative decoding but I haven't read it yet.
But I vote for these heroes with my wallet. Just yesterday did again.
Can't sell their SOTA models, only slightly better than the open source models for the models they can sell, cost 20x to 50x for good models, a TAM that consists almost solely of developers, with no customer of theirs actually boasting increased profits as a result of AI...
I fear their time to IPO may have passed.
> As with V4-Flash, we treat this point as an indication that DSpark sustains useful throughput under an interactivity target that the baseline cannot efficiently support. At matched system capacities, DSpark delivers 57% to 78% faster per-user generation.
Reminds me of the flawed solution in scaling servers in 2017 that use memory-intensive technologies by adding even more servers to solve the problem. (It just increases costs.)
Rather than doing that, think about which critical parts of your app can be written in a more performant technology.
Fast forward to 2026, now you can see who is just throwing more money at the problem to create even more problems where as DeepSeek is giving us optimized solutions.
I know exactly who I would pay attention to, and it is absolutely not Anthropic.
The state-of-the-art nanometer are impossible to achieve but if you have infinite solar energy during business hours does it really matter? Every company has a parking spot so this ASIC-like appliance could be as big as a shipping container.
If it could just run recent open models for a handful of users it would be such a nobrainer to buy.
OpenAI and Anthropic are doing nothing interesting.
Basically forgot about them 2 years ago.
I don’t use DeepSeek either but at least they do interesting stuff - they were the first to do “thinking” iirc
