The U.S. just pledged hundreds of billions to protect its AI leadership. A Chinese startup with a ‘joke of a budget‘ may have already undercut those hopes - eviltoast
How a Chinese AI startup with a ‘joke of a budget’ won over experts—and spooked investors, the tech sector and the U.S. government
fortune.com
Hangzhou-based DeepSeek has released several open-source AI models that match OpenAI’s performance—with more efficiency and at lower cost.
  • Breve@pawb.socialEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I very much see what is happening in the US as the groundwork for them becoming an authoritarian state just like China and Russia. They still have “capitalism” and “democracy” too!

    My only hope is that the people of the US realize what is happening before it’s too late, and that the rest of the world can hold out in the mean time.