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Is DeepSeek about to cause a stock market crash?
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No not, actually. The bubble is in the idea that AI requires large amounts of power, cooling, and processing throughput to achieve things like the current OpenAI O1 Reasoning and Logic models. The circle is like this:
The New AI Model Is Bigger --> Needs Bigger Hardware --> Bigger Hardware Needs Better Cooling --> More Cooling and Bigger Hardware Needs More Power --> More Cooling and Bigger Hardware means we can train the next Bigger Model --> Back to Start
So long as the Newest AI model is "bigger" then the last AI model, then everyone in this chain keeps making more money and has higher demand.
However, what Deepseek has done is put out an equivalent to the newest AI model that:
A) Required less up front money to train,
B) Uses considerably less resources than the previous model,
C) Is released on an Open Source MIT License, so anyone can host the model for their use case.
Now the whole snake is unraveling because all this investment that was being dumped into power, cooling, and hardware initiatives are fucked because less power and cooling is required, and older hardware can run the model.
The fact that the US model can eat shit as soon as somebody figures out a way to make it work better and faster instead of forcing a bunch of bloat and ad-infinitum upgrading is hilarious to me.
If that's not a perfect distillation of the infinitely wasteful US economy I don't know what is.
That was a great explanation, thanks!