I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the infrastructure and compute dynamic between top Chinese AI labs (specifically DeepSeek) and US giants like OpenAI or Anthropic. On paper, US export controls were supposed to restrict high-end GPU access (like NVIDIA H100s/B200s) to China. Yet, labs like DeepSeek release open-weights models (like DeepSeek-V3 and R1) that perform on par with—or outpace—top closed-source models while serving millions of user requests daily. This makes me wonder: Are they sitting on massive hidden compute clusters, or are we confusing algorithmic efficiency with raw hardware power? submitted by /u/owen800q
Originally posted by u/owen800q on r/ClaudeCode
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