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| Financial Times: |
Tech stocks fall sharply over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 17%+, AVGO down 19%+, TSM down 14%+, AMD down 6%+, ASML down 7%+, and MSFT down 3%+ — Start-up's model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment — Tech stocks tumbled on Monday as advances …
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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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Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com. Threads: @luokai. X: @pmarca, @pmarca, @satyanadella, @birdyword, @danprimack, @kobeissiletter, @natolambert, @oren_cass, @peterwildeford, @mattyglesias, @aravsrinivas, @thestalwart, @thestalwart, @matthewclifford, @ercwl, @alex_dreyfus, @trungtphan, @deepakshenoy, @ns123abc, @grummz, @jenzhuscott, @gfodor, @thestalwart, @shaunrein, @miles_brundage, @pgelsinger, @boriquagato, @danprimack, @teroterotero, @emollick, @mattprd, @qtrresearch, @signulll, @jasminewsun, @paulskallas, @mattturck, @signulll, @ananayarora, @chrisjbakke, @pmarca, @mattbruenig, @john_j_brown, @tunguz, @emptywheel, @omooretweets, @luke_metro, @nic__carter, @tszzl, @emollick, @garrytan, @goth600, @linusekenstam, @benthompson, @jasonhickel, @matthewstoller, @growing_daniel, @levie, @growing_daniel, @fiberedskies, @thestalwart, @wayne_culbreth, @steve_sailer, @mattturck, @thechiefnerd, @pet3rpan_, @emollick, @mxtaverse, @mervenoyann, @dlacalle_ia, @turnernovak, @joannastern, @bonegpt, @qtnx_, @sentdex, @tphuang, @benioff, @stevenheidel, @yacinemtb, @angelusm0rt1s, @richlightshed, @joshuakushner, @vivekgramaswamy, @quantian1, @theobertram, @stevesi, @sstapczynski, @parikpatelcfa, @refsrc, @ruima, @calilyliu, and @teroterotero
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepSeek debuts a family of multimodal, MIT-licensed open-source models including Janus-Pro-7B, which it claims beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 in GenEval and DPG-Bench — DeepSeek, the viral AI company, has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAI's DALL-E 3.| 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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| 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.
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X: @benbajarin, @pietergaricano, and @stratechery
| 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.
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| 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.
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Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @anildash.com, @anildash.com, @mims, @anildash.com, and @anildash.com. X: @garrytan
| 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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Bluesky: @airnomad1. X: @scottbelsky, @stevenloi, @johnmccrea, @eduardk, @bharatvasan, and @simonvlc
| Bloomberg: |
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Bluesky: @niedermeyer.online, @niedermeyer.online, @niedermeyer.online, and @niedermeyer.online
X: @danprimack, @devahaz, @thestalwart, and @thestalwart
| The Information: |
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Bluesky: @elkmovie, @prietschka, and @wademinter.com
X: @modestproposal1, @finbarrtimbers, @brij, @wordgrammer, @jasonprompts, @mark_k, @steph_palazzolo, and @matthewstoller. Forums: r/technology
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta says Meta AI will now use account info from across Meta's apps to give personalized suggestions; users can also ask Meta AI to “remember” specific things — Meta says that it is rolling out improvements to Meta AI, its cross-platform chatbot, including the ability have the bot “remember” details from conversations.| 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: @tappedlands.com and @tyleraking.com
Forums: r/news, r/technology, and r/technews
| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: some banks led by Morgan Stanley are in talks to sell up to $3B of senior secured debt tied to Twitter's buyout, boosted by a claim to a ~$6B xAI stake — - Morgan Stanley leads lenders selling debt tied to X buyout — Creditors said to be told they'll have claim to AI stakeSponsor Posts
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