DeepSeek v3.1 is not having a moment
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·August 22, 2025dang
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DeepSeek-v3.1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44976764 - Aug 2025 (253 comments)
varsketiz
From the perspective of China, it probably makes sense to try and train on local chips and try to dethrone Nvidia. I guess this means PRC thinks AGI isnt around the corner and they can catch up on hardware.
gchamonlive
It also seems reasonable for me to think AGI isn't around the corner given how much current AI technology has failed in all fronts to deliver anything both general and intelligent.
mikae1
Not even Altman thinks AGI is around the corner. It keeps the hype and money flow alive though.
dingnuts
is that why he's talking up Dyson Spheres in interviews? the guy is a lunatic and conman, either completely insane or evil, no other option. here's the stupid quote:
Sam Altman: I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time.
Theo Von: Do you really?
Altman: But I don’t know, because maybe we put them in space. Like, maybe we build a big Dyson sphere around the solar system and say, “Hey, it actually makes no sense to put these on Earth.”
esafak
They're already making the robots to run these models, which are the complements they are commoditizing.
yahoozoo
This blog is unreadable
jsnell
No space between paragraphs and blockquotes definitely hurts, and the subheading formatting is clearly not right. But the same content is posted on multiple sites. Maybe you'd find e.g. the Substack formatting more readable?
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/deepseek-v31-is-not-having-a-m...
urbandw311er
This blog is excellent in general, particularly the AI posts. Yes they go extremely deep in places but the author freely admits that they are designed to be read selectively / skimmed in places.
yahoozoo
I mean it’s just a huge blob of text with emojis
black_puppydog
Jup, shame really. Just a little bit of better formatting and typesetting could really go a long way there. :)
Because it did not top the open source leaderboard on any benchmark, except the agent one maybe. The hosted versions are not currently cheaper or faster than the other open source models, either.