Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn 860: DeepSeek R1: SOTA Reasoning at 1% of the Cost
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Feb 7, 2025 Curious about cut-rate AI breakthroughs? Discover the impressive rise of DeepSeek's R1 model, a newcomer shaking up the market alongside giants like OpenAI and Google. Learn how this Chinese innovation efficiently competes at a fraction of the cost, prompting discussions on global tech dynamics. Dive into the $500 billion Stargate AI initiative and its seismic industry impacts, while also uncovering advancements in sustainable LLM training that aim for fair access in the AI landscape.
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DeepSeek's Disruptive Efficiency
- DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, rivals OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic in performance.
- DeepSeek's models achieve similar results at a fraction of the training cost.
Scaling vs. Breakthroughs
- Scaling transformer architecture leads to LLM improvements, overtaking humans on cognitive tasks.
- Conceptual breakthroughs in machine learning could accelerate progress toward AGI even faster.
DeepSeek's Technical Breakthrough
- DeepSeek achieved a conceptual breakthrough by combining existing ideas with new efficiencies.
- They used a GPU communications accelerator called DualPipe to optimize data flow between GPUs.