Incredibly informative thread here.
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Karen Hao
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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If we knew about it from the start, then it wouldn't even have come to these extreme changes in innovation and costs!
Nvidia here and there, but deepseek?
“There can only be one”!
(Or was that Highlander?) 🤔
I’ve seen this movie!
China is mad about sanctions. They still required many datacenter hours, and millions of dollars. China burns far more coal than we do.
They are mad about sanctions.
China is the largest consumer of coal, and has comprised more than half of global consumption since 2011, with this share growing year upon year; reaching 56% in 2020
Do better.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-clean-energy-pushes-coal-to-record-low-53-share-of-power-in-may-2024/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_China
You and I know they’ll both enjoy it.