China’s MiniMax LLM costs about 200x less to train than OpenAI’s GPT-4, says company

If this one doesn't self-censor on political topics, they should call it MiniMarx

Sort of tangent: do you know how to evade deepseek self censorship? Would deploying it locally help or is it better to use alternative LLM (preferrably non 5/9 eyes servers)? It's great for learning polical econpmy and history and especially ML theory (checking sources along with way) but it stops itself when it gets more interesting (ie learning about ML pragmatism)