DeepSeek’s R1 AI is “impressive, particularly around what they’re able to deliver for the price,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a 20 January post on X. “We will obviously deliver much better models and also it’s legit invigorating to have a new competitor!”
In 2023 through 2024, venture capitalists dumped about $155 billion into AI, data service Pitchbook reported. OpenAI alone has collected $24 billion, with Anthropic—founded by OpenAI alumni—raising $16 billion.
Share prices for companies from European gas turbine builders and uranium miners to natural gas producers and electric utilities dove earlier this month after Chinese upstart AI developer DeepSeek announced its new model R1.
A tech prodigy starts a research-level company and hires a team of creative young engineers unhampered by experience. The company uncovers a loophole that lets it gain access to some newer U.S.-made AI chips.
Since DeepSeek’s new R1 chatbot made its debut, experts across the industry have put it through paces ranging from writing Dad jokes to complex math calculations.
Stock markets’ ebullience through much of 2024 was due to AI. Nvidia became a $3-trillion company as it piled up back orders for its state-of-the-art AI chips.
Some in the media were suddenly interested in the subject of stolen IP, after revelations that China’s Deepseek.ai likely heisted datasets and more from its American competitor OpenAI.
OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler revealed this past week that he had left OpenAI in late 2024, over concerns about the way AI was being developed at the company.
“Humans are off limits for now…” That line is from a 28 January MIT Technology Review detailing new experiments that have combined genetics from two same sex “parents” to create offspring.
Trump Media, started after MSM and social media platforms censored the sitting President during the 2020 election, and after the massive January 6 protests against election fraud, is moving into crypto and Defi.