You should read the research papers that come out with Deepseek releases. There is a reason why the first Deepseek release briefly caused existential panic.
But I did read some second hand reports that what was new and exciting was that they found some really good performance optimizations. The thing about deekseek publishing this is that now everyone has this.
Or did I miss something?
It sounds like you're agreeing with upstream comment then!
>> DeepSeek and other Chinese model makers are massively accelerating progress in AI not slowing it down
especially if it's something that the major companies had already stumbled upon (something equivalent to) and regarded as a trade secret.