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Open-source DeepSeek-R1 uses pure reinforcement learning to match OpenAI o1 — at 95% less cost

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with open-source technologies, just dropped another bombshell: a new open reasoning LLM called DeepSeek-R1. Based on the recently introduced DeepSeek V3 mixture-of-experts model, DeepSeek-R1 matches the performance of o1, OpenAI’s frontier reasoning LLM, across math, coding and reasoning tasks. The best part? It does this at a…
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OpenAI’s agentic era begins: ChatGPT Tasks offers job scheduling, reminders and more

ChatGPT is taking a significant step toward becoming a full-blown personal assistant with the release of a new feature called Tasks. This could signal that OpenAI will release more agents in the future. Currently in beta, Tasks lets ChatGPT Plus, Team and Pro users schedule actions ahead of time. For example, if someone wants to receive project reminders or daily weather updates, they can prompt…
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Forget Nvidia: Ndea wants to build AI that keeps improving on its own with ‘no bottlenecks in sight’

François Chollet, a former Google engineer and the creator of the widely-used Python deep learning framework Keras, has co-founded Ndea, a new AI research and science lab, alongside Mike Knoop, co-founder of Zapier. In a post on the startup’s new website, the founders explain their goals of combining intuitive pattern recognition, enabled by deep learning, with formal reasoning through what…
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Diffbot’s AI model doesn’t guess — it knows, thanks to a trillion-fact knowledge graph

Diffbot, a small Silicon Valley company best known for maintaining one of the world’s largest indexes of web knowledge, announced today the release of a new AI model that promises to address one of the biggest challenges in the field: factual accuracy. The new model, a fine-tuned version of Meta’s LLama 3.3, is the first open-source implementation of a system known as graph…
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