"Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists ... it is real ... it is possible ... it's yours."
– Ayn Rand
After R1, we will see so much development in the next 12 months.
Will OpenAI provide powerful open source models? Doubtful but necessary.
Will Grok 3 shake up the current leaderboard? Hopefully.
Will China make American companies struggle even more? Of course.
R1 introducing the Sputnik moment of the AGI race is fabulous. Competition is great, and even if DS is highly untrustworthy, it pushes the spirit of beating them and becoming even better. That alone is a great contribution for the current state of AI