Comment by throwaway67678

Again, that's besides the point. So the state is an investor in DS, and? Many companies in Western capitalist economies receive initial state funding, especially startup grants. The real point to make is: does the state purposely fund the structural expenses of all those companies at a loss in an effort to undercut the competition and without which they would all go bankrupt and the cost of inference would be naturally much higher and couldn't be possibly optimized? I have yet to see evidence of that, especially given the continuous and prolific R&D from Chinese labs (or the panic at Meta when DS-r1 came out) that does show optimization gains are in fact possible.