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: 🧵 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.