DeepSeek Rises, Stargate Drama, OpenAI’s Operator Debuts
Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) DeepSeek r1, an efficient, cheap reasoning model from China 2) How DeepSeek stacks up against the state of the art 3) Does DeepSeek invalidate the billions of dollars invested in current foundational models 4) DeepSeek's wild origin story 5) How DeepSeek changes U.S. and China's AI rivalry 6) OpenAI, Softbank, and Oracle team up to invest up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure in a program called Stargate 7) But do they have the money? 8) Will Stargate test the limits of the scaling hypothesis 9) OpenAI's Operator agent debuts 10) Will people want Operator? 11) Analysts downgrade Apple after Apple Intelligence disappoints 12) Wait, TikTok is still here?
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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover 1) DeepSeek r1, an efficient, cheap reasoning model from China 2) How DeepSeek stacks up against the state of the art 3) Does DeepSeek invalidate the billions of dollars invested in current foundational models 4) DeepSeek's wild origin story 5) How DeepSeek changes U.S. and China's AI rivalry 6) OpenAI, Softbank, and Oracle team up to invest up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure in a program called Stargate 7) But do they have the money? 8) Will Stargate test the limits of the scaling hypothesis 9) OpenAI's Operator agent debuts 10) Will people want Operator? 11) Analysts downgrade Apple after Apple Intelligence disappoints 12) Wait, TikTok is still here?
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