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China’s MiniMax LLM costs about 200x less to train than OpenAI’s GPT-4, says company
This will likely cause some agita among investors who’ve sunk hundreds of billions into deeply unprofitable LLM makers like OpenAI and Anthropic.
If accurate—and MiniMax’s claims have yet to be independently verified—this figure will likely cause some agita among blue-chip investors who’ve sunk hundreds of billions into private LLM makers like OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Microsoft and Google shareholders. And all Chinese-produced models have to comply with Chinese-government-mandated censorship rules, which means that they can wind up producing answers to some questions that are more aligned with Chinese Communist Party propaganda than generally accepted facts. A bipartisan report from the House of Representatives’ Select Committee on the CCP released in April found that DeepSeek’s responses are “manipulated to suppress content related to democracy, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and human rights.” It’s the same for MiniMax.
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