In January, the world witnessed Chinese AI startup DeepSeek set off a revolution with its cost-efficient, state-of-the-art AI models. The company unveiled two models, DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-V1, that rivalled the performance of frontier models by OpenAI and Google, and that too at a fraction of the cost used by big tech. DeepSeek has paved the … Read more
Andreessen Horowitz general partner and Mistral board member Anjney “Anj” Midha first spied DeepSeek’s jaw-dropping performance six months ago, he tells TechCrunch. That’s when DeepSeek introduced Coder V2, which rivaled OpenAI’s GPT4-Turbo for coding-specific tasks, according to a paper it released last year. This put DeepSeek on a path to release improved models every couple … Read more
Title:Software Engineer’s Gesture: ogopenai.com Now Points to China’s OpenAI Wunderkind, DeepSeek In a tech world where a domain change can stir intrigue, software engineer Ananay Arora has done just that by redirecting ogopenai.com to DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab causing ripples in the open-source AI scene. Arora’s inspiration was a now-deleted X post by Perplexity’s … Read more