DeepSeek — Field Evidence
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Field note
COBS: Cumulant Order Block Sparse Attention — Block sparse attention is a hardware friendly way to alleviate the key-value (KV) cache read bottleneck in large language models (LLMs). However, it is not prevalent among leading open-weight LLMs, which rely instead on dense attentio
collected 2026-07-13original 2026-07-10
Does this shift the US–China race?
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Impact on the index
Regulation · major
China -110US +30
Directional contribution — before recency decay and per-type diminishing returns. How it works →
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U.S. FrontiervsChina Open-Weight
Likely — capability gap narrowing on common tasks
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