9 curious things about DeepSeek R1: AI Eye
Curious facts about DeepSeek: It’s not AI’s ‘Sputnik Moment,’ it has erotic dreams about censorship, you can run it at home for $6K. AI Eye.
Youve no doubt heard about the major AI story dominating global news coverage this week DeepSeek R1.
From all accounts, it seems theres a new Chinese AI model built for a total cost of $16.95 thats as good as OpenAIs trillion-dollar models even though it was put together by teenagers who tied six Intel Pentium processors together, powered them with a potato battery, and told it to refuse to answer questions about Tiananmen Square.
As a result of this tall tale which relates to a genuinely impressive achievement despite the exaggerations investors rushed to sell overvalued US AI stocks along with every token in my entire portfolio of unrelated cryptocurrencies.
Youve probably read a million articles about it already, so heres a collection of the more interesting tidbits about DeepSeek weve come across:
Whatever DeepSeek cost, its widely agreed it was a lot more than the $5.6 million training cost for v3 that the media keeps highlighting. (R1 refers to the reasoning version that was built atop v3).
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Author: Andrew Fenton
