Of course DeepSeek lied about its training costs, as we had strongly suspected. SemiAnalysis has been following DeepSeek for the past several months. High Flyer, DeepSeek’s owner, was buying Nvidia…
but i still think that it’s a little suspect on the grounds that we have no idea how many times they had to restart training due to the model borking, other experiments and hidden cost
Oh ye, I totally agree on this one. This entire genAI enterprise insults me on a fundamental level as a CS researcher, there’s zero transparency or reproducibility, no one reviews these claims, it’s a complete shitshow from terrible, terrible benchmarks, through shoddy methodology, up to untestable and bonkers claims.
I have zero good faith for the press, though, they’re experts in painting any and all tech claims in the best light possible like their lives fucking depend on it. We wouldn’t be where we are right now if anyone at any “reputable” newspaper like WSJ asked one (1) question to Sam Altman like 3 years ago.
Oh ye, I totally agree on this one. This entire genAI enterprise insults me on a fundamental level as a CS researcher, there’s zero transparency or reproducibility, no one reviews these claims, it’s a complete shitshow from terrible, terrible benchmarks, through shoddy methodology, up to untestable and bonkers claims.
I have zero good faith for the press, though, they’re experts in painting any and all tech claims in the best light possible like their lives fucking depend on it. We wouldn’t be where we are right now if anyone at any “reputable” newspaper like WSJ asked one (1) question to Sam Altman like 3 years ago.