An old-school (pre-LLMs?) engineer would recognize that DeepSeek is in no way doing semver, so your major/minor/patch glossary might not apply here at all :)
> It's not a bad copy, or at least that's not what the person you responded to is insinuating.
FWIW, GP didn't write "a bad copy" but "bad copy", referring to the marketing sentence quoted by OP, rather than the model that was just released (as I presume "a bad copy" sounds, maybe like it's called that because it's [again, presumably] distilled?). "Copy", especially in a marketing context, is a written message.
But with that version number, it's not a "minor" update! It's a patchlevel update! -Engineer
An old-school (pre-LLMs?) engineer would recognize that DeepSeek is in no way doing semver, so your major/minor/patch glossary might not apply here at all :)
Strictly speaking, it just shows they aren't marketers. Bad copy doesn't tell us anything about their engineering skill.
It's not a bad copy, or at least that's not what the person you responded to is insinuating.
Deepseep-v4.1-Flash-1017 is a minor update. A major update is something like Deepseek-v5-Flash.
> It's not a bad copy, or at least that's not what the person you responded to is insinuating.
FWIW, GP didn't write "a bad copy" but "bad copy", referring to the marketing sentence quoted by OP, rather than the model that was just released (as I presume "a bad copy" sounds, maybe like it's called that because it's [again, presumably] distilled?). "Copy", especially in a marketing context, is a written message.
Strictly speaking, it's the substantial improvements that tell us about their engineering skill.
Strictly speaking, they didn't say anything about their engineering skill
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