It's already technically feasible: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/intellect-2
GPT‑4.1 scores 54.6% on SWE-bench Verified, improving by 21.4%abs over GPT‑4o and 26.6%abs over GPT‑4.5—making it a leading model for coding.
People sang praise from the roof for Google's Gemini 2.5 models, but in many things for me they can't even beat Deepseek V3.
In terms of code and science, Gemini is way, way too verbose in its output, and because of that it ends up getting confused by itself and hurting the quality of longer windows.
R1 does this too, but it poisons itself in the reasoning loop. You can see it during the streaming, literally criss-crossing its thoughts and thinking itself into loops before it finally arrives at an answer.
On top of that, both R1 and Gemini Pro / Flash are mediocre at anything creative. I can accept that from R1, since it's mainly meant as more of a "hard sciences" model, but Gemini is meant to be an all-purpose model.
If you pit Gemini, Deepseek R1 and Deepseek V3 against each other in a writing contest, V3 will blow both of them out of the water.
But in general 2.5 Pro is an extremely strong model. It may lose out in some respects to o3-pro, but o3-pro is so much slower that its utility tends to be limited by my own attention span. I don't think either would have much to fear from V3, though, except possibly in the area of short fiction composition.
I wonder whether you're actually running the proper DeepSeek-R1 model, or one of those lesser finetunes?
https://www.socialscience.international/making-deepseek-spea...
I don't have a powerful enough system to run DeepSeek, but I've tried this with some of the Qwen3 models. They'll write answers that discuss Xi Jinping (which results in an auto-nuke of the reply from Chinese-hosted models, at least DeepSeek) or other very mildly/nominally sensitive topics.
(This is probably a coarse measure to easily ensure compliance with a recent national security law that requires commercial providers of web services address sensitive topics "appropriately" or something like that, and LLMs run non-deterministically. That's why this layer of censorship often comes across as laughably extreme— it's an extreme compliance strategy that exceeds the demands of the law for the sake of guaranteeing legal safety from an unpredictable software system.)
But the same models will altogether refuse to discuss the Tiananmen Square Massacre, even locally.
Some "decensored" versions of the Qwen3 models will discuss the Tiananmen Square Massacre, but in a very concise, formulaic, "official" way. After some chatting about it, it fell into an infinite repetition of one of its short formulaic answers (a behavior I didn't see with the original Qwen3 models with the same settings).
So yeah, the model itself is tuned at least somewhat to refuse to talk about politically sensitive things. It's not just another filter.
Markets used to be places to make money more smart (efficient allocation of capital) but have somehow degraded to index fund buys that track average economic growth of a few hot stocks that are expected to at least not get cold anytime soon.
There are much better ways to increase diversity
From a western standpoint, this is amazingly helpful because it’s a form of Chinese self destruction and waste.
I'd be interested in seeing the numbers for that claim broken down if you can cite them. From napkin math it seems hard to make the budgets line up, unless we're doing a very large purchasing power parity adjustment?
The real equivalence to US defense budget in term of size is actually the infrastructure construction budget. While both budgets boost the economy , infrastructure budget improves the life of local people. Now as the most cities in coast areas run out of project to build, the over capacity cultivated in early years is poured to other directions: rural areas, undeveloped provinces, and even overseas especially Africa and Latin America. It's amazing that China changes very fast year by year as I visited some rural areas.
Ionically this behavior of infrastructure building sounds like Chinese MAGA to me: mind our own business, focus on improve ourselves instead of spread values to other countries.
This is not jingoism. The PRC has not been around very long and it's already conquered a neighbor, fought multiple wars for land, and continues to build up its military to subjugate Taiwan.
Being replaced with a liberal democracy would DEFINITELY be an improvement, even if these tariffs won't do it.
You can call it whatever you want. People who have fled shitty regimes have a much better sense for propaganda than you do, evidently.
I do. The World will be just fine as the American empire fades and the US becomes just another country. Even for the American people, for the average persons, it will be an improvement.
I don't believe you.
> From a western standpoint, this is amazingly helpful because it’s a form of Chinese self destruction and waste.
As a Westerner, as a human, I reject this zero-sum mentality.
Diversity is not pouring oil into water and using the polluted oil-water in lieu of oil and also in lieu of oil. If you want actual diversity you need differences that are separated from each other. It is precisely what has been collapsing for the last 80+ years, actual real diversity, precisely because unique separate groups and clusters have been shattered, scattered, mixed, and polluted.
Even AI is now accelerating this collapse of what is really a form of human biodiversity, or should it be called cultural diversity, as AI is causing a conformity of thought. There are several reports and papers on that phenomenon already.
It’s absolutely ridiculous to claim that somehow those factors will increase over the prior situation simply because we increase actual, real diversity of unique things; not this fake, fraudulent, delusional diversity that has forced on us like a toxic sludge dump that has destroyed human diversity as everyone increasingly consumes the same “content” slop and eats the same food slop, and has the same cultural and musical slop.
https://blog.lambdaclass.com/introducing-demo-decoupled-mome...
I was sceptical of the US sanctions but this seems like a real win if this can be taken all the way to its logical conclusions.