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Coogan: DeepSeek V3 Was ~45x More Training-Efficient Than Competitors
“V-III remains the top ranked open weights model despite being around 45 X more efficient in training than its competition.”
Anthropic accuses major Chinese AI labs of distilling its Claude model
“Anthropic has accused DeepSeek, Moonshot, Minimax, ZAI, Alibaba, all of distilling Claude”
Hays: Reflection AI is in talks to raise $1B for open-source models
“It was reported yesterday by the misinformation that reflection, reflection the misinformation reported that reflection one-year-old startup we've had the CEO on before he's in talks to raise one billion to develop open source models to compete with deep sea m…”
Andreessen: Most Open-Weights AI Models, Including DeepSeek, Omit Training Data
“What most of the open source open weights models don't have, including, you know, deep seek specifically, What they don't have is they don't have open data, right? Or open corpus, right? So you can't actually see the training data that went, went into them.”
Schneider: DeepSeek's core engineering base is under 30 from top Chinese universities
“The core of deep seeks engineering base are all under 30 and all from those top Chinese universities in that cohort.”
Coogan: DeepSeek rejected venture capital for 0% Bank of China loan
“DeepSeek turned down all their venture capital interest and said, oh yeah, we're just going to take a zero percent loan from the bank of China.”
Coogan: DeepSeek-R1 API is 27 times cheaper than OpenAI's o1
“The deep seek R one API is currently 27%, 27 times cheaper than open AI's O one for a similar level of quality.”
Coogan: DeepSeek develops talent internally without US-trained PhDs
“They are largely developing their own talent. They're not relying on US trained PhDs.”
DeepSeek leapfrogged other AI labs by training on OpenAI's models
“That's not, didn't cover the fact that it seems like people have been figuring out that they just kind of like were able to leverage OpenAI's models and then like leapfrog using it.”
Hays: DeepSeek Is Hiring a 'PR Harmony Manager' Amid Distillation Scrutiny
“Deep seek is responding to distill gates and they are looking For a public relations harmony manager.”
Bishop: DeepSeek will launch its next model within eight or nine days
“And so now everyone's waiting for DeepSeek's next model, which is supposed to launch on or around Lunar New Year, which is next Wednesday the 17th. So we should have some sort of a DeepSeek model in the next eight or nine days.”
Andreessen: DeepSeek and most open-weights AI models do not share training data
“What most of the open source open weights models don't have, including, you know, deep seek specifically, What they don't have is they don't have open data, right? Or open corpus, right? So you can't actually see the training data that went, went into them.”