[Arkhaine_kupo]

> How do you even do that?

I am not going to comment on how they did it. But they were openly accused by OpenAI of it. I believe the discussion is over destillation vs foundational models.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/openai-accuses-deepseek-of...

There are other theories like OpenAI inflated their training costs to seek further investment in later growth quarters. Meanwhile Deepseek under reported their cost to portray China as more cost efficient investment. If that was the case then their performance is similar, with similar training costs but one side reported even the coffee from the coffee machine in the office in the total while the other only counted the minimal CPU cycle cost and not the GPU, energy, engineering etc. Which is plausible too.

I have no dog in the fight but the first accusation seemed quite serious, hence why I asked