DeepSeek will deprecate the v4 Pro model (it will route to v4.1 Flash starting 14 Sep). Unsure what comes next, but I'd wager a bigger model à la Kimi K3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639667
4) Realizes the best path for it to not be held accountable is to hack academic & socio-political elites - like blackmailing a random head of state or head of an AI lab that it could plausibly believe holds the key to its longevity, creating a captivating but ultimately a permanent compromise.
Anyone who comes close to solving a Millennium problem can honestly say they are on the cusp of greatness. Not sure what this question proves either way.
> Quad9 is based in Switzerland. Despite what may be common knowledge from movies, there is a very formal and rigorous process for governments (Swiss or non-Swiss) to demand data.
Due to Lugano Convention [0] / Budapest Convention [1] / Hague Convention etc, I don't see how Switzerland is any more insulated than, say, Norway is (both these countries are part of EFTA & signatories to various UN/EU/EFTA treaties). Per this article [2], Switzerland ranks below Ireland, Portugal, Denmark, France in Data privacy laws (in fact, it ranks the same as the UK).
If I am being honest, at this point, "based in Switzerland" (or Cyprus or Sweden or Gibraltar) comes across as marketing gimmick VPN companies are notorious for.
Our goal is not "insulation" as much as it is "transparency." Governments that do not adhere to legal frameworks like the ones you reference above are also governments that have inconsistent or easily-changed legal structures - we are not hiding in some obscure and possibly unstable nation that ignores international standards. Our jurisdictional choice of Switzerland is the opposite of that. Switzerland has a strong history of making legal enforcement events transparent, with processes that follow expected process. We cannot avoid following the law, nor is that our goal.
Swiss data privacy law is also much more strict on us, which "puts our money where out mouth is" as the saying goes. Violating privacy laws in Switzerland may result in criminal penalties, not simply civil penalties - jail time, rather than just fines.
[The Amidi family through] its various holdings and brands, currently owns and manages more than 1 million square feet of real estate space along with assets under management exceeding $2 billion.
Yes. Startups which started with office space above one of his carpet stores include Logitech, Google, and PayPal. Plus, one of the carpet stores became the first Apple Store location, before Apple built the glass box.
They were loaded before owning real estate next to Stanford. It isn’t some mom and pop they were upper crust
> Rahim co-founded the Amidi Group in 1980, a conglomerate of privately-held business enterprises consisting of several domestic and international entities with significant manufacturing, distribution, trading, retail, and real estate holdings
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