Sam Altman says DeepSeek's R1 is an “impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price” and OpenAI “will pull up some releases”
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman welcomed the debut of DeepSeek's R1 model in a post on X late on Monday.
Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps when “official government sources” are updated, after Trump signed an EO changing the name
Google said Monday it will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” in Google Maps …
Nvidia calls DeepSeek's work “an excellent AI advancement”, reiterating “inference requires significant numbers of Nvidia GPUs and high-performance networking”
Nvidia called DeepSeek's R1 model “an excellent AI advancement,” despite the Chinese startup's emergence causing …
DeepSeek's privacy policy shows broad data collection and says content that users give to its models, like text, audio, and files, is stored on servers in China
Amid ongoing fears over TikTok, Chinese generative AI platform DeepSeek says it's sending heaps of US user data straight to its home country …
SemiAnalysis: DeepSeek spent “well over $500M on GPUs”; TechInsights says DeepSeek isn't “a big hit to Nvidia” but “a bigger problem for companies like OpenAI”
Short sellers profit as US chipmaker loses nearly $600bn in market value on Monday
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov, built for US government use, and says 90K+ government employees have generated 18M+ prompts within ChatGPT since the start of 2024
OpenAI on Tuesday announced its biggest product launch since its enterprise rollout. It's called ChatGPT Gov and was built specifically for U.S. government use.
Nvidia's stock fell 16.86% on January 27, closing at $118.58, losing nearly $600B in market cap, more than twice what any US company has lost in a single day
Nvidia lost close to $600 billion in market cap on Monday, the biggest drop for any company on a single day in U.S. history.
Donald Trump vows to put tariffs on foreign chips “in the very near future” and calls DeepSeek's AI progress “a positive” and “a wake-up call” for US industries
President Donald Trump said he would soon impose tariffs on foreign pharmaceuticals …
DeepSeek challenges the “bigger is better” narrative driving the AI arms race in recent years and suggests that we may see more investment into smaller startups
Kevin Roose / New York Times :
The “DeepSeek moment” is like in 2004 when Google detailed using distributed algorithms to build a supercomputer, and unlike Sputnik, when Russia shared little
I think the Deepseek moment is not really the Sputnik moment, but more like the Google moment. If anyone was around in ~2004, you'll know what I mean, but more on that later. I think everyone is over-...
DeepSeek highlights some of China's key advantages: a deep pool of skilled software engineers, a vast domestic market, and government support via subsidies
and MAGA tensions X: Peiyi Wang / @sybilhyz : I hope this formula helps researchers with no experience in RL better understand the RL of LLMs. Additionally, I am grateful to have @pigjunebaba by my si...
Google open sources PebbleOS, paving the way for new third-party hardware; Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky aims to develop a new smartwatch, without VC funding
Four years after launching the (then) most lucrative crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter's history, Pebble abruptly ended.
Even with DeepSeek's breakthroughs, US tech companies still benefit from their large investments to train more advanced models and meet the resulting demand
Programming note: Platformer will be off tomorrow as I welcome a new assistant to help you all with your various customer service and billing questions and get her up to speed.
Hands-on with DeepSeek's free chatbot: the R1 model is powerful, but suffers from rampant hallucinations and lacks some ChatGPT tools like the memory feature
DeekSeek's chatbot with the R1 model is a stunning release from the Chinese startup. While it's an innovation in training efficiency, hallucinations still run rampant.
DeepSeek says it used Nvidia H800 chips, available in China until October 2023, to train R1, suggesting US export controls could be a problem for future models
- Nvidia calls R1 an ‘excellent’ advance that meets US limits — Trump says release should be a ‘wake-up call’ for US companies
When asked if Microsoft is in discussions to acquire TikTok US from ByteDance, Donald Trump told reporters “I would say yes”; Microsoft declined to comment
“I would say yes,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One when asked if Microsoft is in discussions to purchase the app.
The UK CMA provisionally finds that competition in the cloud services market isn't working for consumers; AWS and Azure each control ~40% of the UK market
- CMA publishes provisional views in cloud services study — Intervention comes as UK government seeks to spur growth
DeepSeek's breakthroughs are a “great win” for app developers, in a world where more value will accrue back into the app layer as the cost of AI drops rapidly
Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. X: Josh Constine / @joshconstine : The biggest winner from DeepSeek will be consumer AI apps. Cheaper mod...
X announces X Money Account, a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments service with Visa as its launch partner, debuting “later this year”
Elon Musk's social media platform X on Tuesday announced the launch of a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments services provided by Visa.
Hands-on with Samsung's Project Moohan headset: resembles the Apple Vision Pro, Gemini integration shines, runs Android XR with mobile and tablet apps, and more
The Android XR headset with Gemini has some surprisingly cool features that we'll start to see everywhere.Head to BestBuy to get the latest VR or AR tech in-...
DeepSeek says it is temporarily limiting new user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services, though existing users can still log in
Hayden Field / CNBC :
Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio says investor exuberance over AI has fueled a “bubble” in US stocks that resembles the build-up to the dotcom bust in 1998 to 1999
Honorable mention to the “respectable” bubble pumpers like LeCun, Sutskever, Karpathy, whose job it was to put the pig in an evening dress and apply lipstick. …
Apple releases iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS 15.3, enabling Apple Intelligence by default on supported devices but disabling AI summaries for news apps
iOS 18.3 Released and iOS 18.3 is out to all iPhones. iOS 18.3 brings … PYMNTS.com : Apple Continues Rollout of Apple Intelligence by Enabling It Automatically Stephen Robles / Stephen Robles on YouTu...
Spotify says it paid out a record $10B to the music industry in 2024, up from a then-record $9B in 2023, taking its total to nearly $60B since its 2006 founding
Jem Aswad / Variety :
A profile of DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, a math geek who in 2015 founded hedge fund High-Flyer and who some compare to quant investing pioneer Jim Simons
Wall Street Journal :
The EU says upcoming sanctions on Russia aim to crack down on traders who send gaming consoles to Russia that are then often used by the army to control drones
Financial Times :
KuCoin pleads guilty to having an unlicensed money transmitting business, agreeing to ~$300M in fines and forfeitures, in a case brought by US federal attorneys
it's about looking ahead with renewed [image] @kaiz3ns : RIP to my Kucoin gems. That VRA bag will never recover now. Jack Frost / @___jackals : RIP kucoin you were my back-alley hoe & i'll never forge...
Fusion reactor startup Helion, which has a deal to supply Microsoft with electricity by 2028, raised a $425M Series F, valuing the company at $5.245B
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch :
Apple restores Marvel Snap, published by ByteDance's Nuverse, to the US App Store, and removes the card game from its document listing banned ByteDance apps
here's what we know Dylan Horetski / Dexerto : Why is TikTok not on the App Store anymore? Steve Vegvari / iPhone in Canada Blog : Marvel Snap Returns to US App Store Following Ban of ByteDance-Owned ...
Paris-based Alice&Bob, a cat qubit quantum architecture pioneer, raised a €100M Series B for a “fault tolerant” quantum computer, after a €27M Series A in 2022
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Business travel startup TravelPerk raised a $200M Series E at a $2.7B valuation and buys expense management startup Yokoy, a source says for a “nine-figure” sum
and now, we're taking things to the next level. We're building a fully [video] LinkedIn: LinkedIn : TravelPerk's Post — 📣 Big news: TravelPerk has acquired Yokoy, the leading European expense manage...
Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen2.5-VL, a new series of AI models that can control PCs and phones, as well as perform a number of text and image analysis tasks
QWEN CHAT GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : Not Just DeepSeek - Alibaba Unveils AI Model To Rival OpenAI's Operator Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Alibaba Qwen Cha...
EU appeals hearing: Google accuses the EC of making “grave errors” in its Android investigation that led to a record €4.3B fine; EU lawyers defended the case
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg :
SAP reports Q4 cloud revenue up 27% YoY to €4.71B, above €4.68B est., driven by AI demand, names a suite of new executives, and plans to simplify its strategy
Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg :
Hugging Face launches Inference Providers, which makes it easier for developers to run AI models on 3rd-party clouds; launch partners include SambaNova and Fal
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
AI enterprise service management startup Atomicwork raised a $25M Series A led by Khosla Ventures and Z47, a source says at a $150M valuation
Kritika Lamba / Reuters :
Three case studies using GPT-4o, OpenAI o1, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet for historical research show that the models are now good enough for PhD-level analysis
I had a bit of a glimpse this morning, when I used chatgpt to identify a manuscript that ended up in my backlog stack somehow. 👇 Dr. Erika Graham-Goering / @jeanneologist : Came across this and am ge...
TechInsights: ChangXin Memory Technologies appears to have made DDR5 RAM for Gloway using techniques that haven't previously been seen on the Chinese market
Debby Wu / Bloomberg :
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