Barely a few months ago, Wall Street’s big bet on generative AI had a moment of reckoning when DeepSeek arrived on the scene. Despite its heavily censored nature, the open source DeepSeek proved that a frontier reasoning AI model doesn’t necessarily require billions of dollars and can be pulled off on modest resources. It quickly … Read more
Alibaba has just unveiled its latest reasoning model, and it seems that DeepSeek and OpenAI might have something to worry about — at least if all of Alibaba’s promises turn out to be true. It’s open-source, so I checked it out. You can try it out for free, too, although unsurprisingly, you’ll find that there … Read more
The Chinese startup, DeepSeek plans to become even more transparent about the technology behind its open-source AI models, such as its R1 reasoning model. The company detailed in a post on X on Friday that it will make several code repositories available to the public, starting next week. This will give developers and researchers a deeper … Read more
Elon Musk has confirmed that his AI chatbot, Grok 3 is currently being finalized and will be available in the next one to two weeks, according to Reuters. Speaking in a video call addressing the World Governments Summit in Dubai Musk described the AI tool as “scary smart.” “Grok 3 has very powerful reasoning capabilities, … Read more
Honor’s Yoyo Assistant, an AI agent designed to learn its users preferences, is combining with DeepSeek-R1 to up its language processing and performance. The planned result is a more capable assistant that better understands requests and context. There’s no global launch date for this upgrade yet, but it MagicOS 8.0+ users began to see it … Read more
The privacy and safety troubles continue to pile up for buzzy Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek. After having access blocked for lawmakers and federal employees in multiple countries, while also raising alarms about its censorship and safeguards, it has now attracted an official notice from South Korea’s spy agency. The country’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) has … Read more
It’s one of the biggest apps in the App Store. However, it looks like DeepSeek is also riddled with security flaws. According to NowSecure, the Chinese-based AI chatbot has significant data security and storage flaws. The app, which launched to considerable attention last month, reportedly transmits sensitive data over the internet without encryption, making it … Read more
If you’re a government worker in Texas, you can’t use DeepSeek or many other Chinese-developed applications on your state-issued device. Texas Governor, Greg Abbott, has instated a ban, preventing state employees from downloading, installing, or using several notable Chinese apps on government-sanctioned devices. Sighting data privacy and national security concerns, the Governor decreed that state … Read more
There’s been a frenzy in the world of AI surrounding the sudden rise of DeepSeek — an open-source reasoning model out of China that’s taken the AI fight to OpenAI. It’s already been the center of controversy surrounding its censorship, it’s caught the attention of both Microsoft and the U.S. government, and it caused Nvidia … Read more
Microsoft has made an interesting move in being quick to support the DeepSeek R1 reasoning model on its Azure cloud computing platform and GitHub tool for developers, not long after setting its sights legally on the China-based company. Microsoft has announced that it will make the new DeepSeek AI model available in “NPU-optimized” versions that … Read more
Cybersecurity researchers from Wiz have found a ClickHouse database owned by Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek containing over a million lines of chat history and sensitive information. The database was publicly accessible and allowed the researchers full control over database operations. The exposure was quickly secured after Wiz shared its discovery with DeepSeek, but it’s possible … Read more
The home page chat interface of DeepSeek AI. Nadeem Sarwar / Digital Trends Microsoft, a primary investor in OpenAI, is now exploring whether the Chinese company DeepSeek used nefarious methods to train its reasoning models. According to Bloomberg Law the company now believes DeepSeek violated its terms of service by using its application programming interface … Read more
DeepSeek is the hot new AI chatbot that has the world abuzz for its capabilities and efficiency of operation — it reportedly cost just a few million dollars to train, rather than the billions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its contemporaries. But as sophisticated as DeepSeek is, it’s not perfect. Like ChatGPT before it, DeepSeek can … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents Nvidia gets hit by the rise of DeepSeek President Trump: “A wake-up call” Meta is scrambling for solutions Elon Musk isn’t buying what DeepSeek is selling OpenAI’s Sam Altman is up to the challenge DeepSeek suffered its first major cyberattack Experts are wary of DeepSeek DeepSeek, the chatbot made … Read more
Table of Contents Table of Contents What is DeepSeek? What can DeepSeek do? Who can use DeepSeek? Why is DeepSeek suddenly such a big deal? A year-old startup out of China is taking the AI industry by storm after releasing a chatbot which rivals the performance of ChatGPT while using a fraction of the power, … Read more