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With DeepSeek, are India’s foundational AI model dreams closer to reality?

February 3, 2025 admin

R1 being built and deployed on an open source basis gives India both a signal and a key tool in proceeding down the foundational AI model path. | Photo Credit: Reuters The emergence of DeepSeek-R1 from China — a highly advanced Artificial Intelligence large language model (LLM) — has jolted technology stocks that were valued…

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Liang Wenfeng: Rise of a Black Swan

February 1, 2025 admin

Statistical mathematician Nassim Taleb, in his seminal work, The Black Swan, defines ‘Black Swan moments’ as highly improbable events with significant impact that are often rationalised with hindsight. In 2008, the global financial meltdown, a Black Swan event that began in the U.S., wiped out trillions of dollars, causing traders to scramble to fulfil margin…

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Has China achieved AI breakthrough with DeepSeek?

January 28, 2025 admin

For over two years, San Francisco-based OpenAI has dominated artificial intelligence (AI) with its generative pre-trained language models. The startup’s chatbot penned poems, wrote long-format stories, found bugs in code, and helped search the Internet (albeit with a cut off date). Its ability to generate coherent sentences flawlessly baffled users around the world. Far away,…

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Is Chinese AI Startup Really A ‘Disruptor’?

January 28, 2025 admin

New Delhi: There is a new kid on the Artificial Intelligence-driven chatbot / Large Language Model (LLM) block, and it is threatening to blow the rest out of the water. Meet DeepSeek, developed by a Hangzhou-based research lab with a fraction of the budget (if you believe the reports) used to make ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude…

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