Schneider: DeepSeek pushed efficiency earlier because it ran out of chips before US labs
Jordan Schneider · Jordan Schneider (ChinaTalk) On the US-China Power Struggle · Mar 28, 2025 · at 14:24
Jordan Schneider analyzes how hardware constraints forced Chinese AI firm DeepSeek to prioritize architectural efficiency over raw compute scaling compared to OpenAI and Anthropic.
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“I think deep sea kind of came to that earlier. The sort of need to really push on kind of the efficiency frontier as opposed to the capability frontier, because they ran out of chips before the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic.”
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