Chinese company DeepSeek announced its new R1 model on January 20. They released a paper on how R1 was trained on January 22. Over the weekend, the DeepSeek app became the number-one free download …
Not people who can’t afford 100k to spin up their own servers. It’s going to be a game changer for AI startups and such though who won’t have to spend as much as previously thought.
edit: Basically, numbers out of my ass, but it’s like they reduced the amount you have to spend to get chatgpt-level output from $500k to $100k. Amazing and all, definitely newsworthy, but uh… not directly relevant for us little folk, more about the ripple effects
Can’t people run it locally supposedly?
Not people who can’t afford 100k to spin up their own servers. It’s going to be a game changer for AI startups and such though who won’t have to spend as much as previously thought.
edit: Basically, numbers out of my ass, but it’s like they reduced the amount you have to spend to get chatgpt-level output from $500k to $100k. Amazing and all, definitely newsworthy, but uh… not directly relevant for us little folk, more about the ripple effects
The 671B model although ‘open sourced’ is a 400+GB download and is definitely not runnable on household hardware.
What? You don’t have a spare $6,000 to run nonsense generators at home? Peasant…
https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106?mx=2
Really sorry about this but this sounds like the premise to a shitty boomer joke:
“If I wanted to spend another 6000 for a home nonsense generator, I’d get married again!”
etc.