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% ...

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...