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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.
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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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.
Wired:
DeepSeek's privacy policy shows broad data collection practices and says user data, along with all the conversations and prompts, is stored on servers in China
Financial Times:
Tech stocks fall sharply over DeepSeek concerns, with MRVL down 19.1%, ORCL down 13.8%, AVGO down 17.4%, TSM down 13.3%, AMD down 6.4%, and ASML down 5.8%  —  Nvidia loses almost $600bn in market value on worries US groups are facing a ‘Sputnik moment’  —  Technology stocks tumbled on Monday …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Nvidia's stock drops 16.86%, closing at $118.58, dropping nearly $600B in market cap, more than twice as much as any US company has ever dropped in a single day  —  Nvidia lost close to $600 billion in market cap on Monday, the biggest drop for any company on a single day in U.S. history.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia calls DeepSeek's work “an excellent AI advancement”, reiterating “inference requires significant numbers of NVIDIA GPUs and high-performance networking”  —  Nvidia called DeepSeek's R1 model “an excellent AI advancement,” despite the Chinese startup's emergence causing …
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.
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 release last Monday has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what's required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance.
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.
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
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”
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Google open sources PebbleOS, paving the way for more smartwatch hardware; Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky aims to develop a new smartwatch  —  Four years after launching the (then) most lucrative crowdfunding campaign in Kickstarter's history, Pebble abruptly ended.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple releases iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS 15.3, enabling Apple Intelligence by default on supported devices but disabling AI summaries for news apps  —  Apple on Monday released a software update for iPhones, iPads and Macs that turns Apple Intelligence on by default for users with supported devices.
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.

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