The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek V3 and DeepSeek R1, with much of the conversation fixated on their allegedly low-cost training methods and reduced compute requirements. Are they using revolutionary algorithmic breakthroughs? Is this a clever marketing stunt? Or, as skeptics suggest, is DeepSeek just another “too good to be true” moment in AI development? All of these questions may be missing the point. . -s
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