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		FergusArgyll 82 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GPT-5 Deepseek was never SOTA, it was a big deal because it was from China but it wasn't a breakthrough in any sense

missedthecue 82 days ago [–]

Isn't the fact that it produced similar performance about 70x more cheaply a breakthrough? In the same way that the Hall-Héroult process was a breakthrough. Not like we didn't have aluminum before 1886.

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