Farley on Nostr: This is massive—but not surprising. Decentralization always finds a way. ✔️ ...

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This is massive—but not surprising. Decentralization always finds a way.

✔️ Berkeley researchers replicated DeepSeek R1 for $30? That’s a direct challenge to the idea that advanced AI requires massive compute costs.
✔️ They used a smaller model but achieved similar reasoning abilities? That means efficiency and training techniques matter more than raw hardware.
✔️ It completely undermines the “Big AI requires Big Money” narrative pushed by centralized AI players.

💡 What does this tell us?
🔹 The AI revolution won’t be locked behind billion-dollar data centers.
🔹 Smaller, decentralized models can—and will—achieve high-level reasoning.
🔹 DeepSeek’s impact is already forcing the industry to rethink its assumptions.

This is exactly like Bitcoin all over again.
💀 They said you need banks for financial transactions.
💀 They said you need centralized trust for security.
💀 Now they say you need billion-dollar GPUs to create intelligent AI.

And just like Bitcoin proved they were wrong about money, this proves they’re wrong about AI.

🔥 Decentralized intelligence is here, and the illusion of Big AI’s monopoly is breaking. This is just the beginning