DeepSeek became a fortune teller for China’s youth by Brajeshwar

In the glow of her laptop screen, 31-year-old Zhang Rui typed carefully, following a prompt she’d found on Chinese social media: “You are a BaZi master. Analyze my fate—describe my physical traits, key life events, and financial fortune. I am a female, born June 17, 1993, at 4:42 a.m. in Hangzhou.” DeepSeek R1, China’s most

ByHackTechMarch 3, 20250Comments

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DeepSeek, O3, and AI Applications by cgwu

We intentionally stayed away from commenting on DeepSeek R1 last week to let the dust settle. The AI world had a collective convulsion for a few days, and things have predictably settled down over the last week. The general consensus seems to be that DeepSeek R1 is an impressive model that performs well on benchmarks

ByHackTechFebruary 6, 20250Comments

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DeepSeek ripped away AI’s veil of mystique. That’s the reason tech bros fear it by bookofjoe

No, it was not a “Sputnik moment”. The launch last month of DeepSeek R1, the Chinese generative AI or chatbot, created mayhem in the tech world, with stocks plummeting and much chatter about the US losing its supremacy in AI technology. Yet, for all the disruption, the Sputnik analogy reveals less about DeepSeek than about

ByHackTechFebruary 2, 20250Comments

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Ten Takes on DeepSeek by paulpauper

Yes, DeepSeek is impressive. But the buzz around DeepSeek is potentially more impressive – not since GPT4 have I seen a single AI model take the entire world by storm. Rarely in my life have I seen as many bad takes. It’s time to go through some of the hype and set the record straight.

ByHackTechFebruary 2, 20250Comments

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DeepSeek: What lies under the bonnet of the new AI chatbot? by teleforce

Tumbling stock market values and wild claims have accompanied the release of a new AI chatbot by a small Chinese company. What makes it so different? T The release of China’s new DeepSeek AI-powered chatbot app has rocked the technology industry. It quickly overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free iOS app in the US

ByHackTechFebruary 2, 20250Comments

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DeepSeek might have a trademark problem in the US by impish9208

Chinese AI company DeepSeek has been accused of IP theft, faced privacy inquiries in Europe, and has been the target of an enormous cyberattack. Now, it appears the company has a new headache on its hands: a U.S. trademark conflict. On Tuesday, DeepSeek filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) seeking

ByHackTechJanuary 29, 20250Comments

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DeepSeek spooks American tech industry as it tops the Apple App Store by athousandsteps

It suddenly seemed to many observers on social media that American tech companies like OpenAI and Google—which have so far thrived on proprietary, closed models—have “no moat,” as tech insiders often say, which means that those companies’ technological lead, access to cutting-edge hardware, or impressive bankrolls do not necessarily protect them from upstart market challengers.

ByHackTechJanuary 27, 20250Comments

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DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here’s Why (History Tells Us) by martin_drapeau

TL;DR for this article: DeepSeek was certain to happen. The only unknown was who was going to do it. The choices were a startup or someone outside the current center of leadership and innovation in AI, which is mostly in the US clustered around trillion-dollar companies. It turned out to be a group in China

ByHackTechJanuary 27, 20251Comment

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DeepSeek Coder: Let the Code Write Itself by udev4096

DeepSeek Coder comprises a series of code language models trained from scratch on both 87% code and 13% natural language in English and Chinese, with each model pre-trained on 2T tokens. We provide various sizes of the code model, ranging from 1B to 33B versions. Each model is pre-trained on repo-le

ByHackTechNovember 5, 20230Comments

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