Artificial Intelligence - General News

[Foo Fighter]

If he throws his weight around more more, he is going to find himself in a dark alley and no 911.
What would the reward be?

 

[Flyaway]

Apparently all the tech bros are sweating bullets over this especially when China just casually threw this out as open source.

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

A Chinese startup just showed every American tech company how quickly it's catching up in AI

The Chinese startup DeepSeek has released a new AI reasoning model that appears to rival the abilities of a frontier model from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

www.businessinsider.com

Anyone feel like Silicon Valley have badly misjudged China on their AI progress?

 

[yeetmahboi]

Apparently all the tech bros are sweating bullets over this especially when China just casually threw this out as open source.

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

A Chinese startup just showed every American tech company how quickly it's catching up in AI

The Chinese startup DeepSeek has released a new AI reasoning model that appears to rival the abilities of a frontier model from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

www.businessinsider.com

Anyone feel like Silicon Valley have badly misjudged China on their AI progress?

The Chinese optimize their models better because of the hardware restrictions imposed on by the chip ban. Simply put, DeepSeek runs better on less capable hardware, and the pricing rate is so low anyone can afford it.

It's really a wake up call for AI devs in the US whom are so accustomed to using overpowered hardware that they can't bother with optimization. Same situation with games.

Nvidia shares is hitting lows, and if China could pump out their own chips and drivers at fire sale prices, rock bottom.

 

[Foo Fighter]

In what is called "The west" the MO is always to go for 'bigger and faster', which loosely translates into 'more profit'.

It also translates into, "Windows 10 will be our last OS, just updates from now on", and on to, |"Windows 11 and now Windows 12" because, "We are not making enough profit".

My favourite, "Windows 11 enables people to go and buy a new PC (Because we say you have to, which makes our friends happy)".

Cynical? Moi?

 

[Grey Havoc]

Bad Week for Unoccupied Waymo Cars: One Hit in Fatal Collision, One Vandalized by Mob - Slashdot

For the first time in America, an empty self-driving car has been involved in a fatal collision. But it was "hit from behind by a speeding car that was going about 98 miles per hour," a local news site reports, citing comments from Waymo. ("Two other victims were taken to the hospital with...

tech.slashdot.org

 

[Flyaway]

Bubble about to burst?

Investors punished global tech stocks on Monday after the emergence of a Chinese chatbot competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, DeepSeek, raised doubts about the sustainability of the US artificial intelligence boom.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq index in New York opened lower after investors digested the implications of the latest AI model developed by the startup DeepSeek.

Global tech shares fall as China AI chatbot DeepSeek spooks investors

Chinese startup’s $6m product raises doubts about sustainability of western artificial intelligence boom

www.theguardian.com

 

[yeetmahboi]

DeepSeek apparently just restricted registrations to Chinese phone numbers only. A shame.

 

[BAROBA]

DeepSeek apparently just restricted registrations to Chinese phone numbers only. A shame.

https://chat.deepseek.com/sign_in

You can sign in with Google.

Or try to run it locally.

GitHub - deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

Contribute to deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[Flyaway]

DeepSeek apparently just restricted registrations to Chinese phone numbers only. A shame.

Does that apply to their mobile app as well. Because if they have they should update their notes on western app stores, or pull it altogether. I had no trouble signing up for it.

What’s more impressive still is it was built off of relatively lower power chips, because of the chip ban to China, bringing into question this constant quest for more and more powerful hardware, using more and more power. TBH this last point seems good news for things like spaceflight if you can run powerful AI applications on older hardware with lower power requirements.

 

[Halcyon66]

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/nvidia-falls-10percent-in-premarket-trading-as-chinas-deepseek-triggers-global-tech-sell-off.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/chinese-ai-applications-are-looking-to-move-beyond-chatbots.html

Regards,

 

[Flyaway]

Good article about all of this.

DeepSeek FAQ

DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?

stratechery.com

 

[Halcyon66]

DeepSeek bonanza

In case you haven’t heard, DeepSeek, a Chinese company, released a pretty darn good AI at rock bottom prices.

www.grumpy-economist.com

Training costs are absurdly low.

Regards,

 

[Flyaway]

Power companies that are most exposed to the tech sector’s data center boom plunged Monday, as the debut of China’s DeepSeek open-source AI laboratory led investors to question how much energy artificial intelligence applications will actually consume.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/power-stocks-plunge-as-ai-energy-needs-questioned-due-to-new-china-model.html