Hacker News will mindlessly upvote anything they see as a threat to US AI labs. It's not more complicated than it having "DeepSeek" in the name.

You don’t think it’s because titanic battles are interesting and here’s a company that (a) gives you the weights to a frontier model for free, (b) publishes great papers with LLM architecture innovations, (c) is insanely cheap?

No, I don't.

Unbelievable take considering announcements about US labs routinely top this website