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Three things to know as the dust settles from DeepSeek

Within AI, though, what impact is DeepSeek likely to have in the longer term? Here are three seeds DeepSeek has planted that will grow even as the initial hype fades. First, it’s... Read more »

Roundtables: What DeepSeek’s Breakout Success Means for AI

What DeepSeek’s Breakout Success Means for AI Speakers: Charlotte Jee, news editor, Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor, and Caiwei Chen, China reporter. The tech world is abuzz over a new open-source... Read more »

Anthropic has a new way to protect large language models against jailbreaks

Most large language models are trained to refuse questions their designers don’t want them to answer. Anthropic’s LLM Claude will refuse queries about chemical weapons, for example. DeepSeek’s R1 appears to be... Read more »

The Download: following DeepSeek’s lead, and OpenAI’s new research agent

DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all In the week or so since DeepSeek became a household name, a dizzying number of narratives have gained steam, including that... Read more »

OpenAI’s new agent can compile detailed reports on practically any topic

OpenAI claims the tool represents a significant step towards its overarching goal of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) that matches (or surpasses) humans. It says that what takes the tool “tens of... Read more »

DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all

Add the fact that other tech firms, inspired by DeepSeek’s approach, may now start building their own similar low-cost reasoning models, and the outlook for energy consumption is already looking a lot... Read more »

OpenAI releases its new o3-mini reasoning model for free

These types of models are most effective at solving complex problems, so if you have any PhD-level math problems you’re cracking away at, you can try them out. Alternatively, if you’ve had... Read more »

Following the lead of DeepSeek, OpenAI makes its reasoning model free

These types of models are most effective at solving complex problems, so if you have any PhD-level math problems you’re cracking away at, you can try them out. Alternatively, if you’ve had... Read more »

How DeepSeek ripped up the AI playbook—and why everyone’s going to follow its lead

There’s more. To make its use of reinforcement learning as efficient as possible, DeepSeek has also developed a new algorithm called Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). It first used GRPO a year... Read more »

How DeepSeek ripped up the AI playbook—and why everyone’s going to follow it

There’s more. To make its use of reinforcement learning as efficient as possible, DeepSeek has also developed a new reinforcement learning algorithm called Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). It first used GRPO... Read more »