DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost
DeepSeek-R1’s Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. This story focuses on exactly how ...
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Forget the price wars—MiniMax goes open-source to rewrite the AI playbook
Like DeepSeek, MiniMax has also open-sourced the latest of its AI tech. Amid ongoing debates about the limitations imposed by ...
What the DeepSeek disruption is all about
DeepSeek's free model R1 disrupts the industry, costing US markets $1 trillion and prompting rapid competitor responses amid ...
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A paradigm shift? The view from China on DeepSeek and the global AI race
DeepSeek has shown that China can, in part, sidestep US restrictions on advanced chips by leveraging algorithmic innovations.
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DeepSeek is disrupting American AI leadership
Since China is subject to U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors, which includes Nvidia’s latest AI processors like the Blackwell Graphic Processing Unit, DeepSeek had to find a way to ...
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The total cost of DeepSeek’s AI models exceeded $1.5 billion, report estimates
A new report analyzes the cost of DeepSeek’s large language models and compares them to the ones created by OpenAI.
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The Many Faces of Reinforcement Learning: Shaping Large Language Models
In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly redefined the field of artificial intelligence (AI), ...
Reinforcement Learning for LLMs in 2025
Learn how reinforcement learning and prompt engineering are shaping the future of large language models for smarter AI ...
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Robotics & AI Institute, Boston Dynamics to make humanoids more useful with reinforcement learning
The Robotics & AI Institute and Boston Dynamics are working to help the Atlas robot learn from simulation and move better.