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AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”

Ars Technica

The technique caught widespread attention after Chinas DeepSeek used it to build powerful and efficient AI models based on open source systems released by competitors Meta and Alibaba. Through distillation, companies take a large language modeldubbed a teacher modelwhich generates the next likely word in a sentence.

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Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model

TechCrunch

Kai-Fu Lee, the computer scientist known in the West for his bestseller AI Superpowers and in China for his bets on artificial intelligence unicorns, has a new venture — and a great ambition. AI with the vision to develop a homegrown large language model for the Chinese market. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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The EU’s AI Act could have a chilling effect on open source efforts, experts warn

TechCrunch

The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published a piece decrying the bloc’s regulation of open source AI, arguing it would create legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development. “In the end, the [E.U.’s] “In the end, the [E.U.’s]

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The most innovative companies in artificial intelligence for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Google DeepMind broke through with a family of natively multi-modal models called Gemini that understand imagery and audio as well as they do language. Mistral released impressive new small language models that can run on laptops and even phones with its Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B, as did Microsoft with its Phi-3 and Phi-4 models.

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Multiple third-party platforms integrate DeepSeek – has Chinese AI finally entered its era?

TechNode

In the past few weeks, we have witnessed a surge of third-party platforms integrating DeepSeek, a powerful new AI model that is swiftly reshaping the landscape of artificial intelligence in China. Is this the moment when AI in China, particularly Chinese-language AI, finally steps into the spotlight?

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Apple to continue partnership with Baidu, collaborate with Alibaba on AI for iPhone

TechNode

Baidu is developing AI-based search features for Apple to enhance both image and text processing and improve the Chinese-language Siri experience as part of Apples “China Intelligence” initiative, sources said. series later this year, which will be fully open source. [

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Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely

TechCrunch

With the investment, the company will build a “quality-assured” manufacturing marketplace, as well as mirrored servers in China to open access to its hardware capital, Shenzhen. Wikifactory is available in four languages right now and is set to expand to 20 after it raises a Series A funding round next year.

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