What is DeepSeek and why is it disrupting the AI sector?
Chinese startup DeepSeek's launch of its latest AI models, which it says are on a par or better than industry-leading models in the United States at a fraction of the cost, is threatening to upset the technology world order. The company has attracted attention in global AI circles after writing in a paper last month that the training of DeepSeek-V3 required less than $6 million worth of computing power from Nvidia H800 chips. DeepSeek's AI Assistant, powered by DeepSeek-V3, has overtaken rival ChatGPT to become the top-rated free application available on Apple's App Store in the United States. Read more : https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/what-is-deepseek-... This seems like a good opportunity for African countries to develop and implement low-cost AI solutions.
Dear Victor et al., Indeed the events of the past couple of days have been striking. The truth of the matter is that the economics of the current offerings from key LLM providers are unsustainable and were limited to 'Big tech' till Deep Seek showed up and in a massive way disrupting the entire space . Can we safely predict that a future Llama release from Meta will likely incorporate DeepSeek’s approach of using reinforcement learning rather than massive labelled datasets. The key takeaway for us all is that there’s now real competition based on efficiency and optimization—open to many, rather than confined to just a few....which indeed gives Kenya and Africa a platform to complete and develop innovative AI solutions as it ushers in a special era for open source. We however need to cautious as Deepseek seems to claim ownership of the AI generated outputs. Regards, Dr. Ojino ICT Consultant/Researcher On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM Victor Kapiyo via KICTANet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Chinese startup DeepSeek's launch of its latest AI models, which it says are on a par or better than industry-leading models in the United States at a fraction of the cost, is threatening to upset the technology world order.
The company has attracted attention in global AI circles after writing in a paper last month that the training of DeepSeek-V3 required less than $6 million worth of computing power from Nvidia H800 chips.
DeepSeek's AI Assistant, powered by DeepSeek-V3, has overtaken rival ChatGPT to become the top-rated free application available on Apple's App Store in the United States.
Read more : https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/what-is-deepseek-...
This seems like a good opportunity for African countries to develop and implement low-cost AI solutions. _______________________________________________ KICTANet mailing list -- kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke To unsubscribe send an email to kictanet-leave@lists.kictanet.or.ke Unsubscribe or change your options at: https://mm3-lists.kictanet.or.ke/mm/lists/kictanet.lists.kictanet.or.ke/
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I thought they have now limited the use to people with Chinese phone numbers? On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 at 16:22, Ronald Ojino via KICTANet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Dear Victor et al.,
Indeed the events of the past couple of days have been striking. The truth of the matter is that the economics of the current offerings from key LLM providers are unsustainable and were limited to 'Big tech' till Deep Seek showed up and in a massive way disrupting the entire space .
Can we safely predict that a future Llama release from Meta will likely incorporate DeepSeek’s approach of using reinforcement learning rather than massive labelled datasets.
The key takeaway for us all is that there’s now real competition based on efficiency and optimization—open to many, rather than confined to just a few....which indeed gives Kenya and Africa a platform to complete and develop innovative AI solutions as it ushers in a special era for open source.
We however need to cautious as Deepseek seems to claim ownership of the AI generated outputs.
Regards,
Dr. Ojino
ICT Consultant/Researcher
On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM Victor Kapiyo via KICTANet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Chinese startup DeepSeek's launch of its latest AI models, which it says are on a par or better than industry-leading models in the United States at a fraction of the cost, is threatening to upset the technology world order.
The company has attracted attention in global AI circles after writing in a paper last month that the training of DeepSeek-V3 required less than $6 million worth of computing power from Nvidia H800 chips.
DeepSeek's AI Assistant, powered by DeepSeek-V3, has overtaken rival ChatGPT to become the top-rated free application available on Apple's App Store in the United States.
Read more : https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/what-is-deepseek-...
This seems like a good opportunity for African countries to develop and implement low-cost AI solutions. _______________________________________________ KICTANet mailing list -- kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke To unsubscribe send an email to kictanet-leave@lists.kictanet.or.ke Unsubscribe or change your options at: https://mm3-lists.kictanet.or.ke/mm/lists/kictanet.lists.kictanet.or.ke/
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