And they said "it's over" millions of times. What they mean is the exponential expectations are done.

I don't remember as a big fan of DeepSeek.

you dont remember deepseek introducing reasoning and blowing benchmarks led by private american companies out of the water? with an api that was way cheaper? and then offered the model free in a chat based system online? and you were a big fan?

Deepseek was never SOTA, it was a big deal because it was from China but it wasn't a breakthrough in any sense

Isn't the fact that it produced similar performance about 70x more cheaply a breakthrough? In the same way that the Hall-Héroult process was a breakthrough. Not like we didn't have aluminum before 1886.