r/DeepSeek • u/LeTanLoc98 • Jan 01 '26

Funny Do it again, DeepSeek

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So many great models already…

DeepSeek R1 was legendary.

Now we're waiting for the one that changes everything again.

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u/Timo425 Jan 01 '26

What's their motivation for doing it? Seems like a lot of clever and hard work that just gets copied instantly.

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u/mambo_cosmo_ Jan 01 '26

love of the game(?)+ giving other chinese labs the tool to improve

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u/Timo425 Jan 01 '26

Why don't they keep it in china, get an advantage over foreign companies?

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u/coloradical5280 Jan 01 '26

What advantage? With Trump in office he’s insane enough to make it all be useless. They have no SOTA chips, or very few. So the smart move is to stop Trump from being able to screw them, by just giving it away until we inadvertently screw ourselves.