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DeepSeek v3.1 is not having a moment
What if DeepSeek released a model claiming 66 on SWE and almost no one tried using it? Would it be any good? Would you be able to tell? Or would we get the shortest post of the year? Why We Haven’t…
Eleanor Olcott and Zijing Wu: Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek delayed the release of its new model after failing to train it using Huawei’s chips, highlighting the limits of Beijing’s push to replace US technology. DeepSeek was encouraged by authorities to adopt Huawei’s Ascend processor rather than use Nvidia’s systems after releasing its R1 model in January, according to three people familiar with the matter. The dumbest style of reaction is when a company offers an incremental improvement (see: GPT-5) and people think that means it’s all over for them, or for AI in general, because it didn’t sufficiently blow them away.
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