Deepseek seems to be having huge PR wins as the "oh shucks" modest boy genius, while the Americans seem like pouty jerks.
Amodei's / Hassabis' comments in particular came off as so arrogant and annoying.
Amodei's / Hassabis' comments in particular came off as so arrogant and annoying.
Exactly which part of their writings comes off as arrogant to you? The only point in Amodei's article[0] that could be remotely be interpreted as arrogant is this:
All of this is to say that DeepSeek-V3 is not a unique breakthrough or something that fundamentally changes the economics of LLM’s; it’s an expected point on an ongoing cost reduction curve. What’s different this time is that the company that was first to demonstrate the expected cost reductions was Chinese.
[0]: https://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls#deep...