Could a DeepSeek-StepFun merger be China's top AI lab? 'Instant #1,' fan speculates
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-17
X user teortaxesTex speculates about a hypothetical StepFun–DeepSeek merger: he doesn't wish ill on StepFun, but claims the combination would 'go pretty hard' and instantly become China's #1 lab — Step is significantly better at products and audio, while nobody beats DeepSeek at infra. Pure speculation, not official news.
The quoted original tweet relays a dinner conversation with a friend working in DeepSeek infra: in this era, the industry's most important things are 1) keeping your learning rate large, and 2) increasing the dimensions of your loss function — a training metaphor for lifelong learning and diversified objectives.
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