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DeepSeek new paper: model uses images of text for vision tokens instead of text tokens. Optical compression might cut costs, computation needed
Read more: DeepSeek new paper: model uses images of text for vision tokens instead of text tokens. Optical compression might cut costs, computation neededDeepSeek, based in China, is innovating again. In a fascinating paper posted on Github, Deepseek-OCR: Contexts Optical Compression, DeepSeek uses a new method of “compressing long contexts via optical 2D mapping.” Instead of text tokens, the model will use image or vision tokens of the text. Basically, like taking a screenshot of a page of…
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Apple researchers cast doubt on AI reasoning models of other companies
Read more: Apple researchers cast doubt on AI reasoning models of other companiesAs Apple struggles to integrate AI into Siri and its other software, Apple researchers posted a controversial paper provocatively titled: “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity.” The researchers are: Parshin Shojaee*†, Iman Mirzadeh*, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, and Mehrdad Farajtabar. First…
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Elon Musk: “A lot of very smart, very motivated [AI] engineers in China.”
Read more: Elon Musk: “A lot of very smart, very motivated [AI] engineers in China.”Everyone is recognizing the competition–and threat–China poses to the U.S. in the AI arms race. Here’s Elon Musk’s assessment, in discussing the DeepSeek moment. “There are a lot of very smart, very motivated engineers in China. So you should expect that China will come up with many great things. They have come up with many great things.…
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Deutsche Bank: China is eating the world. “We think 2025 is the year the investing world realises China is outcompeting the rest of the world.”
Read more: Deutsche Bank: China is eating the world. “We think 2025 is the year the investing world realises China is outcompeting the rest of the world.”According to a news article from the South China Morning Post, republished by Yahoo! Finance: “We think 2025 is the year the investing world realises China is outcompeting the rest of the world,” Deutsche Bank said on Wednesday in a report titled “China Eats the World“, seen by the Post. By the end of 2024,…
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DeepSeek moment: AI arms race disrupted by potential game-changer from China
Read more: DeepSeek moment: AI arms race disrupted by potential game-changer from ChinaMy social media apps blew up this week, with a steady stream of Americans raving about DeepSeek, the new AI rival to OpenAI–and all other AI companies in the U.S. By all appearances, the entire AI industry in the United States has taken notice. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella remarked: To see the DeepSeek new model,…