VentureBeat

DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost

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. Matching OpenAI’s o1 at just 3%-5% ...
The New York Times

From Courtrooms to Crisis Lines, Chinese Officials Embrace DeepSeek

Government bodies nationwide have been eager to show they are using DeepSeek’s A.I. technology since the company’s founder met with Xi Jinping, China’s leader. By Meaghan Tobin and Claire Fu Meaghan ...
TechCrunch

DeepSeek may have used Google’s Gemini to train its latest model

Last week, Chinese lab DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model that performs well on a number of math and coding benchmarks. The company didn’t reveal the source of the data ...
Cult of Mac

How to run DeepSeek and other LLMs locally on your Mac

ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Apple Intelligence are powerful, but they all share one major drawback — they need constant access to the internet to work. If you value privacy and want better ...
CNBC

China's latest AI model claims to be even cheaper to use than DeepSeek

Startup Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu, announced Monday that its new GLM-4.5 AI model would cost less than DeepSeek to use. Like DeepSeek, the new model is also open source and can be downloaded for ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says

Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use DeepSeek due to data security and propaganda concerns, Microsoft Vice Chairman and President Brad Smith said in a Senate hearing today. “At Microsoft we don’t ...
ZDNet

Google claims Gemma 3 reaches 98% of DeepSeek's accuracy - using only one GPU

The economics of artificial intelligence have been a hot topic of late, with startup DeepSeek AI claiming eye-opening economies of scale in deploying GPU chips. Two can play that game. On Wednesday, ...