'Humongous': DeepSeek’s implications becoming clearer

'Humongous': DeepSeek’s implications becoming clearer
The open-source nature of DeepSeek has won universal praise. (Image: Getty)
Peter Griffin
After the historic trillion-dollar sell-off in tech stocks and the angst about China overturning US supremacy in artificial intelligence, it's no wonder that DeepSeek’s founder Liang Wenfeng received a hero’s welcome in his hometown for the Chinese New Year.The hedge fund trader has turned the artificial intelligence (AI) industry upside down and sent a wave of pride through China not seen since Beijing hosted the Olympics. However, after a week or two of intense scrutiny of DeepSeek’s R1 large language model, a more...

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