2025-01-26
“When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng got into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded onto the scene.” [embedded post]
MIT Technology Review
Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration
The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. — The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …
“When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng got into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded onto the scene.” [embedded post]
Wired
DeepSeek, which started as a deep-learning research branch of Chinese quant hedge fund High-Flyer, is now giving US AI giants a run for their money
When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent.
2025-01-24
“Money allegedly spent on home, vehicles, wedding venue” [embedded post]
Reuters
The US DOJ charges the former CEO of AI chatbot startup GameOn and his wife for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $60M between 2018 and 2024
while failing to even make payroll for employees Cyrus Farivar / Forbes : AI Startup Founder Allegedly Spent Millions Of Investors' Money On House, Car And Wedding Isaiah Poritz / ...