[archon1410]

> If DeepSeek said May

It is pretty strange that DeepSeek didn't say May anywhere, that was also a Reuters report based on "three people familiar with the company".[1] DeepSeek itself did not respond and did not make any claims about the timeline, ever.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/d...

[rvnx]

How it is written it could be 3 anonymous and random guys from Reddit who heard about DeepSeek online.

[tonfa]

The phrasing for quoting sources is extremely codified, it means the journalists have verified who the sources are (either insider or people with access with insider information).

[FooBarWidget]

Welcome to most China news. Many "well-documented" China "facts" are in fact cases like this: the media taking rumors or straight up fabricating things for clicks, and then self-referencing (or different media referencing each other in a circle) to put up the guise of reliable news.

This is why we need to be critical of journalists nowadays. No longer are they the Fourth Column, protecting society and democracy by providing accurate information.

[chrisweekly]

Not just "China news", unfortunately.

[ethbr1]

The second (be critical of journalism as a field's accuracy) doesn't follow from the first (there are bad journalists).

Especially since the alternative is to live in a world without facts.

Which some people would probably love, but I prefer my reality to be constructed from objectivity rather than authority.

[Davidzheng]

Actually I think one of the researchers at Deepseek did say on Twitter but I think that tweet has since been deleted.