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

Financial Times: US tech stocks fall sharply over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 10%+, losing ~$400B in market value, and META, MSFT, and others also dropping; ASML falls 8%+  —  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: Source: Perplexity AI revises its TikTok US merger proposal to ByteDance, allowing for the US government to own up to 50% of the new company upon a future IPO  —  Perplexity AI on Sunday revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance. 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, Nvidia impact, AGI, and more  —  It’s Monday, January 27.  Why haven’t your written about DeepSeek yet?  —  I did!  I wrote about R1 last Tuesday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: A look at the surveillance tech that could power Trump’s immigration crackdown; a review of nearly 15K contracts shows ICE and USCIS spent $7.8B since 2020  —  Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people.  These could be critical in President Trump’s immigration agenda. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Court filing: Indian digital news outlets, including NDTV, Network18, and Hindustan Times, join a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, first filed by ANI in 2024  —  Digital news units of Indian billionaires Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani, and other outlets like the Indian Express and the Hindustan Times … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: 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

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised $24.6M to focus on 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

Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: How DeepSeek outpaced OpenAI at a fraction of the cost: open source, pure reinforcement learning, no supervised fine-tuning, and building on DeepSeek-R1-Zero  —  DeepSeek R1’s Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Stephen Morris / Financial Times: At Davos, AI leaders clashed over safety concerns and the $100B Stargate project; Demis Hassabis and Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei reiterated stark warnings  —  Top tech leaders at Davos such as DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and Meta’s Yann LeCun in fiery debate Lees verder op Tech Meme