We're in a race. It's not USA vs China but humans and AGIs vs ape power centralization.
@deepseek_ai stan #1#, 2023โDeep Time
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There are two hypotheses for the DeepSeek-V4's strange performance (as in, V4-Flash is about as good as we expected, but V4-Pro is disappointing given its scale):
1) failed pretrain
2) big difference in the RL/MOPD stage
Flash probably got multiple such iterations