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Re:Nvidia, ASML Plunge as DeepSeek Triggers Tech Stock Selloff by flakeoil on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @03:51AM (#42850214)
Someone commented somewhere above that deepseek avoided using CUDA. So it means you can achieve very good results without Nvidia's CUDA.

"They skipped CUDA and instead used PTX which is a lower level instruction set"

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Re:Nvidia, ASML Plunge as DeepSeek Triggers Tech Stock Selloff by saagarjha on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @04:53AM (#42850613)
CUDA in this case is the ecosystem, not the programming language.
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