but also, I'm pretty confident that anytime the leading open-source model seat will stay vacant for 2+ months a new (or old) team will rise to take it. Open-sourcing a new SOTA model and sometimes –like DeepSeek did– they might over-shoot their goal and accidentally take the
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Dario’s DeepSeek Essay: Closed-Source Justification Critique
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Finally took time to go over Dario's essay on DeepSeek and export control and to be honest it was quite painful to read. And I say this as a great admirer of Anthropic and big user of Claude* The first half of the essay reads like a lengthy attempt to justify that closed-source
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R1 Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Offers Superior LLM Responses
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reading r1 chain-of-thoughts is quite hypnotizing hits different than your usual LLM straight answer
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DeepSeek and Open-Source AI Discussion on Bloomberg
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briefly chatting on Bloomberg earlier today about DeepSeek and open-source AI pic.twitter.com/M4martvLoW
— Thomas Wolf (@Thom_Wolf) 28 janvier 2025briefly chatting on Bloomberg earlier today about DeepSeek and open-source AI
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Compute for Data Quality: The Next AI Frontier
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"compute isn't primarily for training. It's for creating better data" => watch this space – cool things coming soon
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Commoditization of Intelligence: Market Pricing and Business Model Challenges
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interesting how the market is unable to really price in commoditization of intelligence ~free fundamental tech are always hard to model – brings in divergences and calls for new business models outside of low-order extrapolations
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Open Source AI Commoditization and Product Integration Moats
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every time you declare open-source AI dead another team rise up like a Whac-A-Mole intelligence will be commoditized the remaining moat will be the quality of the product and how it integrate with co-factors. that’s were billions dollars ai companies will be built
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Estimating AI Training Cluster Funding Requirements
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guessing how much billions you should raise to build your next ai training cluster
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AI Writing Tools Become Normalized After Initial Adoption Period
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Had it about a year ago on a topic that was close to my hearth (“writing quality in English”). interesting thing is that after a month you just go over it and it doesn’t change much, just become another tool in almost every single isolated field of our life, we’re already used