What DeepSeek Means for Open-Source AI

You’ve likely heard of DeepSeek: The Chinese company released a pair of open large language models (LLMs), DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1, in December 2024, making them available to anyone for free use and modification. Then, in January, the company released a free chatbot app, which quickly gained popularity and rose to the top spot in Apple’s app store. The DeepSeek models’ excellent performance, which rivals those of the best closed LLMs from OpenAI and Anthropic, spurred a stock-market route on 27 January that wiped off more than US $600 billion from leading AI stocks.Proponents of open AI models, however, have met DeepSeek’s releases with enthusiasm. Over 700 models based on DeepSe..

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Video Friday: Aibo Foster Parents

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DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all

In the week since a Chinese AI model called DeepSeek became a household name, a dizzying number of narratives have gained steam, with varying degrees of accuracy: that the model is collecting your personal data (maybe); that it will upend AI as we know it (too soon to tell—but do read my colleague Will’s story…

MIT Technology Review DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all