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January 27, 2025, 10:50 AM
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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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Financial Times:
US tech stocks fall sharply over DeepSeek concerns, with NVDA down 10%+, losing ~$400B in market value, and META, MSFT, and others also dropping; ASML falls 8%+  —  Start-up's model raises questions about need for huge western hardware investment  —  Tech stocks tumbled on Monday as advances …
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Bloomberg:
DeepSeek shows the complete lack of lock-in that any of these chatbots have, and such a powerful model coming from China may cement “AGI” as a national project
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised $24.6M to focus on breast and prostate cancer and lymphoma  —  The LinkedIn co-founder is starting Manas AI with ‘The Emperor of All Maladies’ author Siddhartha Mukherjee

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