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does pytorch count


PyTorch had the "first thing that didn't suck" advantage and now it has a completely dominant marketshare that prevents better alternatives from emerging. Where it sucks (e.g. on macOS) there are popular alternatives. But it's hard to be enthusiastic about a DL framework in 2025 which does not have native high performance quantization support, for example. Or one where FSDP is crudely bolted onto the side. They say "usability above all else", but I consider such things to be major usability deficiencies, which need to be addressed. But because PyTorch does not have to fight for marketshare, it'll be years before we see anything usable there.


I wonder how Meta trains its models. On vanilla Pytorch or they actually have some closed tools and frameworks?


Source:

- Training SW [x]

- Inference SW [x]

- Evaluation SW [x]

- Data [x]

Output:

- Weights []

DeepSeek is closed-source with *open-weights*


DeepSeek V3 and even Janus has all software open sourced and R1 should be fully open sourced as well soon. More importantly, they explicitly spelled out their methodology in a published paper for DeepSeek R1. Implementation is not as important imo but we'll get that soon as well

https://github.com/deepseek-ai


These types of "repositories" should contain some kind of flag/indication that it contains no source code, similar to when a repo is archived


really? it takes like 1 second looking at the file structure to see what it is, maybe like 2 seconds if you’re hopeful “images” somehow refers to a dockerfile or something


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