Tag: hardware limitations
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The Register: Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek’s next-gen R2 model
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/dodgy_huawei_deepseek/ Source: The Register Title: Dodgy Huawei chips nearly sunk DeepSeek’s next-gen R2 model Feedly Summary: Chinese AI model dev still plans to use homegrown silicon for inferencing Unhelpful Huawei AI chips are reportedly why Chinese model dev DeepSeek’s next-gen LLMs are taking so long.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…
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Hacker News: Every Flop Counts: Scaling a 300B LLM Without Premium GPUs
Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05139 Source: Hacker News Title: Every Flop Counts: Scaling a 300B LLM Without Premium GPUs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This technical report presents advancements in training large-scale Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models, namely Ling-Lite and Ling-Plus, highlighting their efficiency and comparable performance to industry benchmarks while significantly reducing training…
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The Register: Worry not. China’s on the line saying AGI still a long way off
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/boffins_from_china_calculate_agi/ Source: The Register Title: Worry not. China’s on the line saying AGI still a long way off Feedly Summary: Instead of Turing Test, subject models to this Survival Game to assess intelligence, scientist tells The Reg In 1950, Alan Turing proposed the Imitation Game, better known as the Turing Test, to identify…
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Slashdot: Jensen Huang: AI Has To Do ‘100 Times More’ Computation Now Than When ChatGPT Was Released
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/27/0158229/jensen-huang-ai-has-to-do-100-times-more-computation-now-than-when-chatgpt-was-released?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Jensen Huang: AI Has To Do ‘100 Times More’ Computation Now Than When ChatGPT Was Released Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang states that next-generation AI will require significantly more computational power due to advanced reasoning approaches. He discusses the implications of this…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ben Thompson
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,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/deepseek-r1/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B Feedly Summary: DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. That model was trained in part using their unreleased R1 “reasoning" model. Today they’ve released R1 itself, along with a whole…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/12/qwen25-coder/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac Feedly Summary: There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like the buzz…
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Hacker News: Launch HN: Deepsilicon (YC S24) – Software and hardware for ternary transformers
Source URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41490196 Source: Hacker News Title: Launch HN: Deepsilicon (YC S24) – Software and hardware for ternary transformers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the innovative development of ternary transformer models by deepsilicon, offering a solution to the increasing hardware requirements imposed by larger transformer models. This technology…