Financial Times: Tech stocks fall sharply over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 16%+, AVGO down 17%+, TSM down 14%+, AMD down 5%+, ASML down 6%+, and MSFT down 3%+ — Start-up’s model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment — Tech stocks tumbled on Monday as advances … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Hayden Field / CNBC: DeepSeek says it’s temporarily limiting new user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services — DeepSeek on Monday said it would temporarily limit user registrations “due to large-scale malicious attacks” on its services, though existing users will be able to log in as usual. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: AI drug discovery startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised $24.6M to target breast and prostate cancer and lymphoma — The LinkedIn co-founder is starting Manas AI with ‘The Emperor of All Maladies’ author Siddhartha Mukherjee Lees verder op Tech Meme
Yahoo Finance: DeepSeek’s iOS app tops the App Store’s Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US’ AI lead — (Bloomberg) — Chinese startup DeepSeek’s eponymous AI assistant rocketed to the top of Apple Inc.’s iPhone download charts … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: DeepSeek shows the complete lack of lock-in that any of these chatbots have, and such a powerful model coming from China may cement “AGI” as a national project — – The arrival of such a powerful model coming out of China has the potential to cement the narrative that the race to achieve … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Financial Times: Tech stocks fall sharply over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 15%+, AMD down 5%+, ASML down 6%+, and MSFT down 3%+ — Start-up’s model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment — Tech stocks tumbled on Monday as advances by Chinese artificial intelligence start … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Dan Primack / Axios: DeepSeek could be an extinction-level event for venture capital firms that went all-in on foundational model companies; investors say they are not panicking — – It’s an open-source project hatched by a hedge fund, which at least for now seems aimed at developers instead of at enterprises or consumers. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: A profile of French health insurer Alan’s CEO, Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve, a Mistral board member who takes credit for bringing in most of Mistral’s backers — Arthur Mensch is the public face of French AI champion Mistral, but another startup’s CEO has been critical to its $6 billion valuation Lees verder op Tech Meme
Wall Street Journal: A look at China’s booming crypto market, with Chinese traders using VPNs, offshore shell companies, and peer-to-peer networks to circumvent China’s crackdown — Recent court cases reveal how middlemen are facilitating a booming trade, eluding a crackdown — Three years ago … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Ben Thompson / Stratechery: An in-depth look at DeepSeek: DeepSeekMoE and DeepSeekMLA, cheap V3 training, the US chip ban, “distillation” from other models, impact on Nvidia, AGI, and more — It’s Monday, January 27. Why haven’t you written about DeepSeek yet? — I did! I wrote about R1 last Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme