Apparently many things were just introduced. Including Pro subscription and a new app. https://www.testingcatalog.com/mistral-ai-rolls-out-mobile-apps-revamped-le-chat-and-set-to-announce-major-update-today/

FYI: This is not marketing, I just got confused because I use Le Chat every day and suddenly everything felt different.

DeepSeek was open about this from the very beginning. The $6 million figure was about comparing apples with apples. Just look at page 5 in the original paper. The SemiAnalysis report compares apples with oranges to save the ass of OpenAI.

Yeah. There’s something with their website and presentation that feels… Well, it didn’t turn off my alarm. I’m also too tired to dive deeper and find out by myself.

The keyboard seems really good though. Just wish the app would ask for mic permissions when it’s actually needed.

This license, plus that the app require microphone access, plus all the AI features, make my BS alarm go bzzz.

Unregulated capitalism in a nutshell.

It usually is. Its a high risk gamble that can lead to basically anyghing. And probably that anything will be bad for the poor. Reformism and organized labor is a safer path towards increased equality. But maybe that ship has sailed for the US…

I used to be pro UBI. Now I’m not so sure. The only resilient tool for increased equality is an organized work force that has real economic power. Workers on UBI has no real power and the UBI can be taken away anytime by those in power.

And if AI takes all jobs… Well, lets cross that bridge when we get there. Maybe we simply have to hope for that crypto bro UBI solution. Qualia will be our last currency.

For the US, my guess is: within the next 4 years. Inflation will be insane. Lets hope blue collar can organize and leverage the situation.

Because of neoliberalism. Its quite simple.

The people saying that Intel should get rid of their fab businesses, really don’t know what they’re talking about. The manufacturing is Intels most important business by far. Mid and long term. (But maybe not profitable short term.)

It is so important that it would make sense for the US to nationalize it. And frankly, chip manufacturing is the kind of business or service that probably should be owned and run by the state. Just like conventional nuclear and advanced military industry.

The full size model requires over 1200 GB of VRAM.

Yes. But I’m worried about Big Tech hijacking ActuvityPub and that they enforce the end of net neutrality. EU regulations and investments is our only hope right now.

Found this page: https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-r1

Haven’t looked through all alternatives yet, but Nebius from Netherlands seems like a viable alternative.

They usually are. Unfortunately.

Steel Division 2 and Hearts of Iron 4.

Slow travel by boat seems pretty awesome and relaxing. Unless there is bad weather…

Good. Never been able to make mypy work as intended.

Thanks for high effort reply.

The Chinese companies probably use SIMC over TSMC from now on. They were able to do low volume 7 nm last year. Also, Nvidia and “China” are not on the same spot on the tech s-curve. It will be much cheaper for China (and Intel/AMD) to catch up, than it will be for Nvidia to maintain the lead. Technological leaps and reverse engineering vs dimishing returns.

Also, expect that the Chinese government throws insane amounts of capital at this sector right now. So unless Stargate becomes a thing (though I believe the Chinese invest much much more), there will not be fair competition (as if that has ever been a thing anywhere anytime). China also have many more tools, like optional command economy. The US has nothing but printing money and manipulating oligarchs on a broken market.

I’m not sure about 80/10 exactly of course, but it is in that order of magnitude, if you’re willing to not run newest fancy stuff. I believe the MI300X goes for approx 1/2 of the H100 nowadays and is MUCH better on paper. We don’t know the real performance because of NDA (I believe). It used to be 1/4. If you look at VRAM per $, the ratio is about 1/10 for the 1/4 case. Of course, the price gap will shrink at the same rate as ROCm matures and customers feel its safe to use AMD hardware for training.

So, my bet is max 2 years for “China”. At least when it comes to high-end performance per dollar. Max 1 year for AMD and Intel (if Intel survive).

Host your own probably isnt a good idea unless youre on the dark webs. Probably not worth it.

If super privacy is a requirement. For normal work/junk mail, sure!

Anything + PGP + Tor + VPN.

There are countless mail servers one can use. I use a mail server hosted by Swedish ISP Bahnhof (which I trust). You can also self host. But then you need to be on the dark webs if you really care about privacy (I dont recommend this).

Or Delta Chat. Or Signal/Matrix/Session/Whatever. This is the preferred choise. EMail is legacy.