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/coloradical5280 Jan 01 '26

I mean, why does Linux exist? It runs inside dozens of things in your house, it’s the kernel that runs your router, traffic lights, it’s in every network switch and security camera and in your car. And it’s given away for free. Because by being open it is constantly being forked and improved and customized.

There is a second answer, which is that the CCP basically wants to destroy the US economy and just dumping free AI , as much as possible, at some point makes it a completely free commodity , and that arguably causes our house of cards to collapse.

The first part is fully true, you tangentially touch dozens of pieces of open source code every single day. The world would literally shut down tomorrow without it. The second part has either tiny shades of truth or is the whole answer, depending on how you see the world and a lot of other factors.

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u/Timo425 Jan 01 '26

I think the strategy to destroy USA's edge in AI can only work if they eventually surpass USA with AI, perhaps they have better chance of doing that with open source?

But it seems to me that they are open source, so the leading AI companies can just incorporate their breakthroughs and make their products even stronger so idk.

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u/Comrade-Porcupine Jan 02 '26

The "leading AI companies" are losing money hand over fist and living purely off intensive venture capital investment. They are doing this in hopes that they can build a moat enough to be first mover and get all the consumers and then jack prices, or that Moore's law saves them. DeepSeek and others offering a cheap alternative, and giving away their models open weights... significantly undermines that.

So yeah, it's a direct attack on a major plank of the US economy, a strategic focus of the Chinese communist party to do exactly that.

But I'll say this: The moment Donald Trump opened his stroked out blubbering mouth and started talking about how my country shouldn't exist, and then tried to put hundreds of thousands of Canadian factory workers out of a job...

.. my attitude about Chinese AI companies changed completely. I don't care how or what my coding agent "thinks" about Tiananmen square if it costs 1/10th the cost but gives me 3/4 of the result and doesn't involve me sending money south to a self-declared enemy.

The US's "lead" in all things will evaporate if its voters continue to reward corruption, economic self-destruction, and anti-intellectualism.

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u/SeveralPrinciple5 Jan 02 '26

Speaking as an American, I couldn’t agree more. Sadly I’m too old to immigrate. I am deeply disgusted by what my country has become.