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
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