Seriously? Another LLM.

Right, so DeepSeek – who I’ve probably never heard of and frankly don’t *want* to hear of – has released a new Large Language Model (LLM) called “DeepSeek-V2”. Big fucking deal. Apparently, it uses something called “sparse attention” which is just fancy talk for making the model more efficient so they can charge you less money to use it. Half the cost, they boast? Oh joy. Like *that’s* going to solve all our problems.

They’re claiming it outperforms Llama 3 and Gemini 1.5 Pro on some benchmarks (because of course they are), specifically in coding and reasoning tasks. And naturally, it’s open-source… for research purposes only. Because letting *everyone* have a powerful AI model would be just… irresponsible, wouldn’t it? They want to sell you the API access, that’s what.

The whole thing is built on 230B parameters and trained on a frankly obscene amount of data. More data doesn’t equal better, people! It equals more electricity bills and bigger server farms. And they’re pushing this as some kind of breakthrough for smaller companies who can’t afford the big boys? Please. It just means more noise in an already overcrowded market.

Honestly, it’s just another LLM vying for your attention (and your goddamn money). Don’t get excited. It’ll probably hallucinate just as much as the next one.

Source: TechCrunch (because you probably won’t bother looking it up yourself)

Speaking of efficiency, I once had to debug a routing issue on a Cisco box because some idiot decided to implement a complex policy based on the *phase of the moon*. Seriously. The phase. Of. The. Moon. And they expected me to fix it? This LLM hype is starting to feel like that – needlessly complicated solutions for problems that don’t exist, all so someone can look clever and sell you something overpriced.

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