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  • Slashdot: DeepSeek Piles Pressure on AI Rivals With New Image Model Release

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/27/190204/deepseek-piles-pressure-on-ai-rivals-with-new-image-model-release?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: DeepSeek Piles Pressure on AI Rivals With New Image Model Release Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has introduced Janus Pro, a series of open-source multimodal models that reportedly outshine OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion. These models are aimed at enhancing…

  • Hacker News: DeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls

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    Source URL: https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/deepseek-and-the-effects-of-gpu-export-controls/ Source: Hacker News Title: DeepSeek and the Effects of GPU Export Controls Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: DeepSeek’s unveiling of their V3 model demonstrates that AI advancements do not solely depend on high-end hardware but can be achieved through architectural efficiency. The model, trained on significantly fewer resources…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: LLM 0.20

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/23/llm-020/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: LLM 0.20 Feedly Summary: LLM 0.20 New release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library. A bunch of accumulated fixes and features since the start of December, most notably: Support for OpenAI’s o1 model – a significant upgrade from o1-preview given its 200,000 input and 100,000…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: r1.py script to run R1 with a min-thinking-tokens parameter

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/r1py/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: r1.py script to run R1 with a min-thinking-tokens parameter Feedly Summary: r1.py script to run R1 with a min-thinking-tokens parameter Fantastically creative hack by Theia Vogel. The DeepSeek R1 family of models output their chain of thought inside a …</think> block. Theia found that you can intercept…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

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    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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/23/jack-clark/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: There’s been a lot of strange reporting recently about how ‘scaling is hitting a wall’ – in a very narrow sense this is true in that larger models were getting less score improvement on challenging benchmarks than their predecessors, but in a…

  • Cloud Blog: Spanner in 2024: A year of innovation

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/spanner-innovations-in-2024/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Spanner in 2024: A year of innovation Feedly Summary: Spanner is Google’s always-on, virtually unlimited database that powers planet-scale applications like Gmail, YouTube, and Google Photos. Outside of Google, Spanner powers demanding workloads for household brands like Yahoo!, The Home Depot, Wayfair, and Pokémon Go. Today, Spanner handles…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: December in LLMs has been a lot

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/december-in-llms-has-been-a-lot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: December in LLMs has been a lot Feedly Summary: I had big plans for December: for one thing, I was hoping to get to an actual RC of Datasette 1.0, in preparation for a full release in January. Instead, I’ve found myself distracted by a constant barrage…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Is AI progress slowing down?

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/is-ai-progress-slowing-down/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Is AI progress slowing down? Feedly Summary: Is AI progress slowing down? This piece by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor is the single most insightful essay about AI and LLMs I’ve seen in a long time. It’s long and worth reading every inch of it – it…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/11/gemini-2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming mode Feedly Summary: Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era. There’s a ton of stuff in there (including updates on Project Astra and the new Project…