<ul><li>Reactions to the new DeepSeek-R1 AI model suggest that we may no longer need billions of dollars in compute hardware.</li><li>Software improvements and faster algorithms discovered in the Exascale Computing Project led to significant speedup, allowing for larger problem-solving.</li><li>Faster algorithms may actually increase the demand for newer and faster hardware, depending on the significance of the problem being solved.</li><li>There is no simplistic argument that faster algorithms and implementations necessarily lead to lower spend on computing hardware.</li></ul>

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