Imagine you’re tasked with building a robot—an autonomous system designed for industrial precision. You’ve spent months just trying to find the requisite talent. Your mechanical engineering team was relatively easy to assemble, but when it comes to the specialized skill sets needed—reinforcement learning (RL), AI integration, and advanced robotic perception—you’re hitting a wall. Experts command…
Analysis of 2,347 tweets shows signs of DeepSeek eating into ChatGPT’s market share
DeepSeek has surged ahead of ChatGPT among X users, commanding 86.8% of stated preferences among 2,347 analyzed X/Twitter posts, based on an analysis from Topview. In the dataset, 86.8% expressed a preference for DeepSeek compared to 12.1% for ChatGPT, 0.8% for Claude and 0.3% for Gemini. Overall, close to seven times more users expressing a…
Meet Reactor Mk.1, an LLM developed under $1M
The AI landscape has long been dominated by a “bigger is better” mantra. The basic thinking is that bigger and better GPUs, more sophisticated algorithms, and more data translates into better performance. And while that is generally true, those assumptions can be simplistic. “DeepSeek is really, really good,” wrote one anonymous employee at Google on…
This week in AI research: Latest Insilico Medicine drug enters the clinic, a $0.55/M token model R1 rivals OpenAI’s $60 flagship, and more
While OpenAI charges $60 per million tokens for its flagship reasoning model, a Chinese startup just open-sourced an alternative that matches its performance—at 95% less cost. Meet DeepSeek-R1, the RL-trained model that’s not just competing with Silicon Valley’s AI giants, but in some cases running on consumer laptops in some configurations rather than in data…