I think the prevailing narrative ATM is that DeepSeek's own innovation was done in isolation and they surpassed OpenAI. Even though in the paper they give a lot of credit to Llama for their techniques. The idea that they used o1's outputs for their distillation further shows that models like o1 are necessary.
All of this should have been clear anyway from the start, but that's the Internet for you.
All of this should have been clear anyway from the start, but that's the Internet for you.