AI, China and Copium

  • Is it Copium or just calling out deceptive claims? This article is two weeks old. By that time we already knew DeepSeek made exaggerated claims about their hardware (https://semianalysis.com/2025/01/31/deepseek-debates/). Now their post yesterday about profits also just has made up and misleading claims like “545%” with a bunch of asterisks around the numbers. They know these misleading claims will be repeated without the fine print.

    As for nationalism and protectionism - no one wants to see the CCP, an aggressive authoritarian dictatorship, have access to any powerful technology. The world is correct to recognize that risk and do something about it.