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What's more likely? 1 - small group of AI engineers at @deepseek_ai figures out how to beat all of the top researchers in the world as a side project 2 - Chinese government has 100k GPUs they shouldn't have and releases open source models claiming $6m training cost as a psyop

2025-01-26 View on X

MIT Technology Review

Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration

The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. — The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …

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What's more likely? 1 - small group of AI engineers at @deepseek_ai figures out how to beat all of the top researchers in the world as a side project 2 - Chinese government has 100k GPUs they shouldn't have and releases open source models claiming $6m training cost as a psyop

2025-01-26 View on X

Financial Times

Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits

China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, ...

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What's more likely? 1 - small group of AI engineers at @deepseek_ai figures out how to beat all of the top researchers in the world as a side project 2 - Chinese government has 100k GPUs they shouldn't have and releases open source models claiming $6m training cost as a psyop

2025-01-25 View on X

VentureBeat

Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones

If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …

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The anti-crypto army fucked around and found out.

2024-11-06 View on X

Financial Times

Elon Musk's gamble on Donald Trump pays off, as Trump wins the race; Trump gave Musk a lengthy shout out in his victory speech, calling him “a super-genius”

“A star is born: Elon,” said Donald Trump in a lengthy shout out to his biggest donor while claiming victory in the US presidential race on Wednesday morning.

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@ellipsis_labs @paradigm $20M raised $20B in volume 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 [image]

2024-04-05 View on X

Fortune

Ellipsis Labs, which operates Phoenix, a decentralized crypto exchange launched in February 2023, raised a $20M Series A led by Paradigm

to do this, sustainable markets are table stakes. I'm fortunate to work with a talented team and thoughtful investors who believe we will achieve this ambitious mission. Mert / @0x...

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Want a free copy of @cdixon's new book “Read Write Own” ? @jubos, @ElectricCapital, and I are giving away 1401 books. Just fill out the form: https://forms.gle/... DEADLINE: 11:59PM Pacific Time, Feb 1 (today!) NOTE: We can only ship to the US [image]

2024-02-09 View on X

VICE

Chris Dixon's book becomes an NYT Best Seller but with a dagger icon denoting bulk orders; a16z and some startups linked to it gave the book to staff and others

Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies …

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It's the same story every time: 1. A closed platform bootstraps by generously rewarding devs 2. Extracts all value & kills the new app ecosystem, but has a moat from existing apps 3. Developers realize open platforms are better The pendulum will now swing back to open platforms

2024-01-26 View on X

MacRumors

Apple's €0.50 Core Technology Fee in the EU would lead to a free or freemium app with 2M annual “first installs” paying $540K+ a year even if no money is earned

App developers in the European Union who choose to opt in to Apple's new business terms must pay an €0.50 …

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It's the same story every time: 1. A closed platform bootstraps by generously rewarding devs 2. Extracts all value & kills the new app ecosystem, but has a moat from existing apps 3. Developers realize open platforms are better The pendulum will now swing back to open platforms

2024-01-26 View on X

MacRumors

Apple announces support for alternative app stores in the EU, charging no commission but instead an annual €0.50 Core Technology Fee per install per account

including sideloading John Voorhees / MacStories : Apple Details How It Plans to Comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act Siôn Geschwindt / TNW : Apple begrudgingly allows EU custo...

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25/ While the Web3 ecosystem continues to grow and is larger than ever, building real community takes time. Most communities take 2 years to get to more than 100 developers. https://twitter.com/...

2022-01-07 View on X

Electric Capital