Weird & Interesting science, take 2

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I expect that everybody heard about the new open-source  LLM AI that made the news yesterday.

Maybe they should have called it DeepFake, or DeepState, or better still Deep Selloff. Or maybe the other obvious deep thing that the indigenous AI vendors in the United States are standing up to their knees in right now.
-- Timothy Prickett Morgan, January 27, 2025

A few articles on The Register go into some depth about it:

• China's DeepSeek just dropped a free challenger to OpenAI's o1 – here's how to use it on your PC
  
• How Did DeepSeek Train Its AI Model On A Lot Less – And Crippled – Hardware?
  
• DeepSeek isn't done yet with OpenAI – image-maker Janus Pro is gunning for DALL-E 3
  
• DeepSeek's R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: 'My guidelines are set by OpenAI'
  

A trial of the model on political topics