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US tech stocks fall sharply pre-market over DeepSeek worries, with NVDA down 10%+ and META and MSFT down 3%; ASML fell 9%+; Japanese chip companies also dropped — Start-up's model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment — Tech stocks fell sharply on Monday …
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| 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 — - App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge
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| 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.
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| Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: |
DeepSeek's use of commodity, disconnected hardware, and open-source design is enough of a shot at AI hyper scaling that it could be “the way things will go” — DeepSeek was certain to happen. The only unknown was who was going to do it. The choices were a startup or someone outside …
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| The Information: |
Sources: Meta set up four war rooms to analyze High-Flyer's DeepSeek, including two for how High-Flyer cut training costs and one on what data it may have used — Artificial intelligence researchers at Meta Platforms have been in panic mode. In recent days, leaders of some of the company's …
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Bluesky: @elkmovie, @prietschka, and @wademinter.com
X: @finbarrtimbers, @steph_palazzolo, @brij, @wordgrammer, @mark_k, @jasonprompts, and @matthewstoller. Forums: r/technology
| 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.
| 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.
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Bluesky: @tyleraking.com and @tappedlands.com
Forums: r/technews and r/technology
| Jeffrey Emanuel / YouTubeTranscriptOptimizer: |
A bear case for Nvidia: hardware competitors, LLM code translation to avoid CUDA lock-in, DeepSeek's training and inference efficiency breakthroughs, and more — As someone who spent ~10 years working as a generalist investment analyst at various long/short hedge funds …
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Bluesky: @taumuyi. X: @chamath, @morganb, @peter_mantas, @doodlestein, @lokoyacap, @morganb, @shaughnessy119, @newmooncap, @dynamicmoats, @ksimback, and @timothyhliu5. LinkedIn: Carter Williams
Forums: Hacker News, r/ValueInvesting, and r/NvidiaStock
| 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 …
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| Reuters: |
Donald Trump denies talking to Oracle about a TikTok deal, saying he has spoken to “many people” and that he expects to decide “probably over the next 30 days” — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was in talks with multiple people over buying TikTok …
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| 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.| Bloomberg: |
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