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  • New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believe About A.I.

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    Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/technology/china-deepseek-ai-silicon-valley.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believe About A.I. Feedly Summary: A new A.I. model, released by a scrappy Chinese upstart, has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recently released AI…

  • Slashdot: DeepSeek Has Spent Over $500 Million on Nvidia Chips Despite Low-Cost AI Claims, SemiAnalysis Says

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/28/1315215/deepseek-has-spent-over-500-million-on-nvidia-chips-despite-low-cost-ai-claims-semianalysis-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: DeepSeek Has Spent Over $500 Million on Nvidia Chips Despite Low-Cost AI Claims, SemiAnalysis Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant market reaction to DeepSeek’s advancements in AI technology and its implications for Nvidia, highlighting the competitive dynamics in the AI sector.…

  • Wired: DeepSeek’s New AI Model Sparks Shock, Awe, and Questions From US Competitors

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/deepseek-executives-reaction-silicon-valley/ Source: Wired Title: DeepSeek’s New AI Model Sparks Shock, Awe, and Questions From US Competitors Feedly Summary: Some worry the Chinese startup’s impressive tech indicates the US is losing its lead in AI, but it may really be a sign that a new approach to building models is gaining traction. AI Summary…

  • Hacker News: Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1

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    Source URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1 Source: Hacker News Title: Open-R1: an open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the release of DeepSeek-R1, a language model that significantly enhances reasoning capabilities through advanced training techniques, including reinforcement learning. The Open-R1 project aims to replicate and build upon DeepSeek-R1’s methodologies…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/28/jack-clark-r1/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: The most surprising part of DeepSeek-R1 is that it only takes ~800k samples of ‘good’ RL reasoning to convert other models into RL-reasoners. Now that DeepSeek-R1 is available people will be able to refine samples out of it to convert any other…

  • Hacker News: Why OpenAI’s $157B valuation misreads AI’s future (Oct 2024)

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    Source URL: https://foundationcapital.com/why-openais-157b-valuation-misreads-ais-future/ Source: Hacker News Title: Why OpenAI’s $157B valuation misreads AI’s future (Oct 2024) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic dynamics and strategic challenges in the AI industry, centered around OpenAI’s recent funding rounds and its implications for value creation in…

  • Slashdot: ‘AI Is Too Unpredictable To Behave According To Human Goals’

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/28/0039232/ai-is-too-unpredictable-to-behave-according-to-human-goals?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ‘AI Is Too Unpredictable To Behave According To Human Goals’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The excerpt discusses the challenges of alignment and interpretability in large language models (LLMs), emphasizing that despite ongoing efforts to create safe AI, fundamental limitations may prevent true alignment. Professor Marcus…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ben Thompson

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/28/ben-thompson/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ben Thompson Feedly Summary: H100s were prohibited by the chip ban, but not H800s. Everyone assumed that training leading edge models required more interchip memory bandwidth, but that is exactly what DeepSeek optimized both their model structure and infrastructure around. Again, just to emphasize this point,…

  • The Register: DeepSeek isn’t done yet with OpenAI – image-maker Janus Pro is gunning for DALL-E 3

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/deepseek_image_openai/ Source: The Register Title: DeepSeek isn’t done yet with OpenAI – image-maker Janus Pro is gunning for DALL-E 3 Feedly Summary: Crouching tiger, hidden layer(s) Barely a week after DeepSeek’s R1 LLM turned Silicon Valley on its head, the Chinese outfit is back with a new release it claims is ready to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL!

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/27/qwen25-vl-qwen25-vl-qwen25-vl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Feedly Summary: Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Qwen2.5 VL! Hot on the heels of yesterday’s Qwen2.5-1M, here’s Qwen2.5 VL (with an excitable announcement title) – the latest in Qwen’s series of vision LLMs. They’re releasing multiple versions: base models and instruction tuned…