Because the difference between a model that costs 10 million to train and a model that costs 10 billion to train is 6 months.

Deepseek R1 is something that you can run in a garage on hardware that the average software engineer can buy with a months salary and when it came out last month it was better than _every_ other model.

I'm not sure people will just take it though. In the short term it looks like the situation is on a horrible course but eventually people will have had enough. I'm hoping it would take less time for that to happen and the damage will not be too great. Let's remember that we could use the same technology if not a better one to fight against all this.

I'm not sure I understand how a hallucinating plagiarism machine that people mostly just use to write their term papers translates into "power" (presumably political power? I don't understand what kind of power we're talking about either).

bingo. and everyone is fine with it as long as the consolidation is benefiting their own tribe.