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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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Bluesky: @quinnypig.com. X: @firstadopter, @morningbrew, @matthewherper, @fchollet, and @morningbrew
| 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.| 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/technology, and Slashdot
| 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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| Wired: |
Bluesky: @couts. X: @lukedepulford, @lukedepulford, @lukedepulford, @tomtugendhat, @etbrooking, and @billackman
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Trump vows to impose tariffs on foreign semiconductors in the “near future”, calls DeepSeek's AI progress “a positive” and “a wake-up call” for US industries — President Donald Trump said he would soon impose tariffs on foreign pharmaceuticals …
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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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| 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.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: |
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| 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.
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Mastodon: @flaki@flaki.social. X: @davidsven, @ericmigi, @ericmigi, @bradtgmurray, @zacbowden, and @ericmigi
| 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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Bluesky: @daviddemchuk.com. Mastodon: @jonny@neuromatch.social. Threads: @wongmjane. Forums: Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen2.5-VL, a new series of AI models that can control PCs and phones, as well as perform a number of text and image analysis tasks — Chinese AI lab DeepSeek might be getting the bulk of the tech industry's attention this week. But one of its top domestic rivals, Alibaba, isn't sitting idly by.
More: Qwen and Simon Willison's Weblog
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| 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.
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Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz. Mastodon: @dnanian@mas.to. Threads: @mgsiegler. X: @zollotech, @nandoprince93, @ispeedtestos, @markgurman, and @brandonbutch
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