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The Rising AI Stars from China

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Until last week, when the news that a relatively unknown Chinese company called Deepseek, released its R1 reasoning model which is equivalent to the performance of ChatGPT’s o1 model, but is fully open-source and available at a fraction of the cost (3-5% of OpenAI’s model). The company claims its AI models rival those of top U.S.

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – November 1 2024

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Flash floods in Valencia, Spain have claimed the lives of 95 people and created apocalyptic scenes. Way to go Dean Leitersdorf and team Decart on coming out of stealth with a $21M seed round for a new inference model that enables companies to dramatically reduce the cost of generative AI – wow ?

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