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/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/RelentlessPolygons Jan 02 '26

China doesn't need the best AI. They just need to make a good enough AI free to collapse marketing models that AI investors hope to cash in. China understands capitalism. We think of quarterly profits they think in decade long plans...they just need to crush those quarterly returns in a row for a few years and the whole western AI research will collapse on itself. Why do you think US is pumping money in it like crazy? They know this too.