[HN Gopher] The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia
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       The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia
        
       Author : eigenvalue
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2025-01-25 15:30 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | eigenvalue wrote:
       | Yesterday I wrote up all my thoughts on whether NVDA stock is
       | finally a decent short (or at least not a good thing to own at
       | this point). I'm a huge bull when it comes to the power and
       | potential of AI, but there are just too many forces arrayed
       | against them to sustain supernormal profits.
       | 
       | Anyway, I hope people here find it interesting to read, and I
       | welcome any debate or discussion about my arguments.
        
       | zippyman55 wrote:
       | So at some point we will have too many cannon ball polishing
       | factories and it will become apparent the cannon ball trajectory
       | is not easily improved on.
        
       | j7ake wrote:
       | This was an amazing summary of the landscape of ML currently.
       | 
       | I think the title does the article injustice, or maybe it's too
       | long for people to read to appreciate it (eg the deepseek stuff
       | can be an article within itself).
       | 
       | Whatever the ones with longer attention span will benefit from
       | this read.
       | 
       | Thanks for summarising this up!
        
         | eigenvalue wrote:
         | Thanks! I was a bit disappointed that no one saw it on HN
         | because I think they'd like it a lot.
        
           | j7ake wrote:
           | I think they would like it a lot, but I think the title
           | doesn't match the content, and it takes too much reading
           | before one realises it goes beyond the title.
           | 
           | Keep it up!
        
         | dang wrote:
         | We've changed the title to a different one suggested by the
         | author.
        
       | diesel4 wrote:
       | Link isn't working. Is there another or a cached version?
        
         | eigenvalue wrote:
         | Try again! Just rebooted the server since it's going viral now.
        
           | kevinventullo wrote:
           | I'm getting a 502
        
       | OutOfHere wrote:
       | It seems like a pointless discussion since DeepSeek uses Nvidia
       | GPUs after all.
        
         | jjeaff wrote:
         | it uses a fractional amount of GPUs though.
        
           | breadwinner wrote:
           | As it says in the article, you are talking about a mere
           | constant of proportionality, a single multiple. When you're
           | dealing with an exponential growth curve, that stuff gets
           | washed out so quickly that it doesn't end up matter all that
           | much.
           | 
           | Keep in mind that the goal everyone is driving towards is
           | AGI, not simply an incremental improvement over the latest
           | model from Open AI.
        
           | ithkuil wrote:
           | Which due to the Jevons Paradox may ultimately cause more
           | shovels to be sold
        
           | cma wrote:
           | Their loss curve with the RL didn't level off much though,
           | could be taken a lot further and scaled up to more parameters
           | on the big nvidia mega clusters out there. And the
           | architecture is heavily tuned to nvidia optimizations.
        
       | arcanus wrote:
       | > Amazon gets a lot of flak for totally bungling their internal
       | AI model development, squandering massive amounts of internal
       | compute resources on models that ultimately are not competitive,
       | but the custom silicon is another matter
       | 
       | Juicy. Anyone have a link or context to this? I'd not heard of
       | this reception to NOVA and related.
        
       | snowmaker wrote:
       | This is an excellent article, basically a patio11 / matt levine
       | level breakdown of what's happening with the GPU market.
        
       | eprparadox wrote:
       | link seems to be dead... is this article still up somewhere?
        
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