DeepSeek did not copy the playbook of US companies. It copied the playbook of US universities: 1. Asssemble the very best young talent. 2 Give them resources and freedom to do mad science.3 Focus on basic research— challenges with no immediate commercial application or profit.
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To speedrun the R&D to launch. That includes budgets for all of the tokens they need on legacy competition - big Tech foundation models. “Standing on the shoulders of giants “