Ray Fernando

Former Engineer, Apple · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ray Fernando is a former Apple engineer specializing in AI workflows and prompting. He teaches tutorials on running local AI models using DeepSeek, Docker, and OpenWebUI.

8statements → 8claims → 6claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 3.62/5average certainty → 1.62/5average debate potential →

6 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 predictions · 6 assertions · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ray argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

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Fernando: DeepSeek R1 Is Open Source and on Par with OpenAI o1
“Like they've made it open source so that it's available for us to study but it's apparently also on par with ChatGPT's like O-one model, O-one's reasoning models.”
Ray Fernando Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 0:46 DeepSeek R1 - Everything you need to know

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Everything Ray Fernando said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Supported
Fernando: DeepSeek R1 Is Open Source and on Par with OpenAI o1
“Like they've made it open source so that it's available for us to study but it's apparently also on par with ChatGPT's like O-one model, O-one's reasoning models.”
Ray Fernando Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 0:46 DeepSeek R1 - Everything you need to know
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Fernando: DeepSeek's official apps and website route user data to China
“To start out to use these models, you have a couple of options and one is going directly to deep seek.com and this is actually currently hosted in China. So a little bit of a background here is that your computer is here. Like it was, for example, I'm in North…”
Ray Fernando Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 2:22 DeepSeek R1 - Everything you need to know
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Fernando: DeepSeek via Fireworks costs $8/M tokens versus o1's $75
“I think it's about eight dollars per million tokens where normally I think ChatGPT was like 15 input and 60 dollars for output for O-one Pro.”
Ray Fernando Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 16:49 DeepSeek R1 - Everything you need to know
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fernando: OpenAI o3 launch will likely trigger reasoning model price drops
“Open AI is currently promised that the O three model will come out and the mini model will come out, which would be on par with this model. So that prices will also probably significantly drop as well because they just get more efficient with time.”
Ray Fernando Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 17:54 DeepSeek R1 - Everything you need to know
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Fernando: GPT-4o natively understands audio and tone, unlike DeepSeek R1
“So one thing I just learned very recently about GPT-IV and ChatGPT's Omni models is the fact that this model's breakthrough, a little bit different than R-I, is the fact that it can actually understand audio and tone and all these extra implications that we do…”
Ray Fernando Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 46:15 DeepSeek R1 - Everything you need to know
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fernando: OpenAI's upcoming o3 model will take the industry by storm
“And so it's going to be really exciting when they actually dropped O three. I think a lot of people are going to be taken by storm of like, what's actually really going to come out from them. It's going to be a really, really big leap.”
Ray Fernando Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 47:23 DeepSeek R1 - Everything you need to know
Assertion Supported
Fernando: Cursor serves DeepSeek via Fireworks API, avoiding China-hosted servers
“One of my favorite apps for coding is actually Cursor. And I asked them, hey, where do you have your DeepSeq model hosted? And they told me they use the Fireworks API. And that's, you know, actually not in China. So that's great. So it's like, okay, cool. That…”
Ray Fernando Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 5:50 DeepSeek R1 - Everything you need to know
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Fernando: DeepSeek web search is unavailable through third-party APIs like Fireworks
“The fireworks and the Grok are specific API endpoints. And right now there isn't like a specific web search thing that's currently tuned into them. So if you want to do web search, you have to go through the deep seek.com route or the app”
Ray Fernando Jan 29, 2025 ▶ 20:12 DeepSeek R1 - Everything you need to know

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
DeepSeek R1 - Everything you need to know Jan 29, 2025 39m
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