Is DeepSeek Legit? Breaking Down All Major Allegations

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In this video, I'll be breaking down a lot of the allegations that DeepSeek received, and clarify some information which seems to be some misunderstanding. If you have other sources that can support or argue against the points, feel free to leave it down in the comments! However, this is not a debate, I just want to share the truth & what I find the most reliable. I have been reading their research for a while, so seeing a lot of these criticisms specifically to DeepSeek really seem like a big misunderstanding.

0:00 intro
0:35 50,000 "illegal" GPUs?
2:30 $5mil is bs
8:35 stolen data
11:49 DeepSeek is NOT a side project
14:25 miscellaneous

Sources
[SemiAnalysis] http://semianalysis.com/
[anthropic CEO post] https://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-a...
[Eryck Banatt] https://planetbanatt.net/articles/v3f...
[LLM Cost Calculator] https://tnyqnervqldjme1y.vercel.app/
[Highflyer Blogs] https://www.high-flyer.cn/en/blog/hf-...
[Free NVIDIA R1 Preview] https://build.nvidia.com/deepseek-ai/...

Papers
[DeepSeek-R1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948
[DeepSeek-v3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19437
[DeepSeek-v2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04434
[DeepSeekMoE] https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06066
[DeepSeekMath] https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03300
[DeepSeekLLM] https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02954


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