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So many are bitching about how, "there's no way it only cost $5.6 million (to train DeepSeek)." Yes, yes there is: It's called subsidies and government assistance.
What do I mean? A simple example we can all understand: When you buy something from somewhere in China (e.g. AliExpress) the shipping price is often free or so cheap as to be negligible. How can it be that shipping is free on a $1 set of earrings‽ It's because China subsidizes the shipping!
China isn't really a capitalist nation (they're not communist either but that's a different matter). That means they have no qualms whatsoever about giving businesses resources for free or next to nothing. That includes loans, reduced shipping, employee recruitment (and straight up loaning them experts), and AI training data.
Did the folks who made DeepSeek copy trade secrets from OpenAI? Sure, that's possible but why would they need to? China has access to the same free-on-the-Internet training data as everyone else plus a very, very special resource no else has: Everything that's ever gone through WeChat.
That's another thing about China: If they come into your business and tell you, "give your data to this other business" you have no say in the matter. You bow and hand it over or you get arrested and maybe don't live for much longer.
This sucks for businesses 99% of the time but every now and again it gives China a massive competitive advantage when everything comes together juuuust right. This is one of those cases.
They're a mixed state-capitalist and private-capitalist country. Also a totalitarian dictatorship with a propensity to commit genocide against its minorities.