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PhD dropout Building the golden bridge to impact @dosidequests
Apr 15 11 tweets 3 min read
The greatest AI Sidequest of 2024 wasn't launched in Silicon Valley with billions in VC funding.

It came from Hangzhou, China—with export controls, limited chips, and a team of fresh graduates.

Here's how Deepseek AI rewrote the rules of the game and what we can learn: 🧵 Image 1/ In late 2024, Deepseek released models matching OpenAI and Google's best.

The shocking part? They claimed to have trained their V3 model for just ~$6M.

For context: Training GPT-4 likely cost $100M+.

This wasn't just an achievement. It was a paradigm shift. Image