More data to look at about DeepSeek R1. (Go China Go!)

https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-everyone-in-ai-is-freaking-out-about-deepseek/

As of a few days ago, only the nerdiest of nerds (I say this as one) had ever heard of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI subsidiary of the equally evocatively named High-Flyer Capital Management, a quantitative analysis (or quant) firm that initially launched in 2015.

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https://sputnikglobe.com/20250126/china-drops-powerful-ai-model-thats-free-fast-and-better-for-humanity-than-silicon-valley-rivals-1121502542.html

Advanced large language model DeepSeek R1 is taking users by storm, wowing reviewers and earning praise from AI-phobes. The Hangzhou-based tech startup’s new model beats OpenAI’s o1 on math and reasoning benchmarks, and blows Meta’s* Llama 3.1 and OpenAI’s GPT-40 out of the water in coding and complex problem-solving. The model is free to run locally, with access to its API priced at a fraction of competitors’ rates. The setup reportedly cost $5.6 million to train (vs $78 million for GPT-40), and uses performance-capped chips due to US restrictions, which also saw the use ban the delivery of more powerful processers to China. Instead, DeepSeek R1 harnesses its power from superior compute efficiency.

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Better look at this and then look around at what the West is doing… (Talking cheap Eastern AI Stuff vs very very expensive Western AI Stuff!)

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Better study this! (DeepSeek) Was I wrong? Thought not…

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WtR