DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US' AI lead
- App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge
Tech stocks fall sharply over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 17%+, TSM down 14%+, AMD down 6%+, ASML down 6%+, and MSFT down 3%+
Start-up's model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment — Tech stocks tumbled on Monday as advances by Chinese artificial intelligence start …
How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at a fraction of the cost: open source, pure reinforcement learning, no supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero
DeepSeek R1's Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what's required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance.
Sources: Meta set up four war rooms to analyze High-Flyer's DeepSeek, including two for how High-Flyer cut training costs and one on what data it may have used
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An in-depth look at DeepSeek: DeepSeekMoE and DeepSeekMLA, cheap V3 training, the US chip ban, “distillation” from other models, impact on Nvidia, AGI, and more
It's Monday, January 27. Why haven't you written about DeepSeek yet? — I did! I wrote about R1 last Tuesday.
DeepSeek's use of commodity, disconnected hardware, and open-source design is enough of a shot at AI hyper scaling that it could be “the way things will go”
DeepSeek was certain to happen. The only unknown was who was going to do it. The choices were a startup or someone outside …
Source: Perplexity AI revises its TikTok US merger proposal to ByteDance, allowing for the US government to own up to 50% of the new company upon a future IPO
Perplexity AI on Sunday revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance.
DeepSeek shows the complete lack of lock-in that any of these chatbots have, and such a powerful model coming from China may cement “AGI” as a national project
- The arrival of such a powerful model coming out of China has the potential to cement the narrative that the race to achieve …
DeepSeek says it's temporarily limiting new user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services
DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services, though existing users will be able to log in as usual.
DeepSeek could be an extinction-level event for venture capital firms that went all-in on foundational model companies; investors say they are not panicking
- It's an open-source project hatched by a hedge fund, which at least for now seems aimed at developers instead of at enterprises or consumers.
A bear case for Nvidia: hardware competitors, LLM code translation to avoid CUDA lock-in, DeepSeek's training and inference efficiency breakthroughs, and more
DeepSeek recently released models claiming up to 45x more efficient training and inference compared to today's best-known large language models (like OpenAI's o1). … Forums: Hacker News : The impact o...
Court filing: Indian digital news outlets, including NDTV, Network18, and Hindustan Times, join a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, first filed by ANI in 2024
Digital news units of Indian billionaires Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani, and other outlets like the Indian Express and the Hindustan Times …
A profile of French health insurer Alan's CEO, Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve, a Mistral board member who takes credit for bringing in most of Mistral's backers
Arthur Mensch is the public face of French AI champion Mistral, but another startup's CEO has been critical to its $6 billion valuation
At Davos, AI leaders clashed over safety concerns and the $100B Stargate project; Demis Hassabis and Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei reiterated stark warnings
Top tech leaders at Davos such as DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and Meta's Yann LeCun in fiery debate
Betting data from Illinois, New Jersey, and Colorado shows how parlays are driving revenue growth for FanDuel, DraftKings, and other US sports betting companies
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Brazil's data protection authority ruled that Tools for Humanity, co-founded by Sam Altman, must stop offering compensation for iris scans in the country
A look at China's booming crypto market, with Chinese traders using VPNs, offshore shell companies, and peer-to-peer networks to circumvent China's crackdown
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A look at the surveillance tech that could power Trump's immigration crackdown; a review of nearly 15K contracts shows ICE and USCIS spent $7.8B since 2020
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Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised $24.6M to focus on breast and prostate cancer and lymphoma
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