"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Kinda. Even after many months, deepseek R1 still dominating local LLM benchmarks. Next to Qwen3.

I think between however actually good it is and US companies having to answer to class action lawsuits for massive copyright infringement that China and Chinese models dobt have to worry about, they just might come out on top of this pile.

Im not convinced this isnt ultimately a non-starter since it creates problems with liabillity and holding any decision maker or process to account and is prone to embarassing failures like not being able to figure out how to play a pokemon game. Reminds me of when I was a kid and I couldn't get the first star in the Bob-Omb plateau level until my brain finally could. It took a long time and getting past a ton of childish superstition I had developed along the way to psychically deal with the failure

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