2026-04-24 14:21 UTC
Yesterday’s side‑by‑side release of #GPT‑5.5 and #deepseekv4 is interesting, but not for the usual “is this a leap?” debate.
What stands out is that DeepSeek continues to operate near this tier at all, given the hardware and compute constraints they’re clearly optimizing against. That’s not luck; it’s a sustained signal about where leverage actually lives and the biggest battle in the industry.
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@mamba@mstdn.ca 2026-04-24 14:22
This feels like further evidence that the #LLM race is less about the frontier itself, and more about the race to the bottom that is taking shape. Frontier capability appears to have an increasingly short half‑life before it becomes: – distilled – sparsified – quantized – re‑expressed through MoE or routing tricks …and made runnable on (admittedly high‑end) consumer or prosumer hardware. The “moat” is starting to look like months, not years. 🧵2/4