🟣 Latest AI News Roundup 🥁 DeepSeek
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This week, just one AI news story was enough to dominate the entire week, and perhaps the entire year?
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1️⃣ DeepSeek-V3 Outperforms other Open-Source LLMs
🏅 DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek-V3 is a powerful new AI model released on December 26, 2024, representing a significant advancement in open-source AI technology.
It is basically the Chinese version of Open AI. They went the same open source route as Meta.
🟣 DeepSeek outshines 4o on nearly every benchmark, all at just 10% of the cost.
The best value in the LLM market!
Technical Specifications
The model features impressive technical capabilities:
685 billion total parameters with 37 billion activated parameters
Trained on 14.8 trillion high-quality tokens
Processing speed of 60 tokens per second, 3x faster than its predecessor
Training cost of $5.5 million using 2,788,000 H800 GPU hours
Performance
DeepSeek-V3 demonstrates exceptional performance across multiple domains:
Outperforms Llama 3.1 405B and GPT-4o in coding competitions on Codeforces
Shows comparable benchmarks to Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Excels in integrating new code with existing codebases
Pricing Structure
Starting February 8th, the model will be available at competitive rates:
Input: $0.27 per million tokens ($0.07 with cache hits)
Output: $1.10 per million tokens
Limitations
The model has some notable restrictions:
Requires substantial computational resources for unoptimized versions
Content filtering for certain political topics due to Chinese regulatory requirements. 🟣 has less censorship than Qwen
Business Impact
DeepSeek-V3’s release has influenced the AI market significantly, forcing competitors like ByteDance, Baidu, and Alibaba to reduce their pricing models and offer some services for free.
The model’s development by a Chinese company backed by High-Flyer Capital Management demonstrates growing competition in the global AI landscape
2025 LLM
DeepSeek-V3 represents a leap forward in open-source AI, offering high performance at a competitive cost, making it a significant player in the ongoing 2025 evolution of large language models.
I’m honestly blown away—this latest development completely caught me off guard and shifted everything I thought I knew.
some are calling it the biggest shake-up of the entire year. The sheer scale of it leaves me both thrilled and a touch unsettled