China challenges GPT-4 with DeepSeek V3 Launch

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Here is what we have Today:

• 💪 China's AI flexes muscles, GPT-4 hits the gym.

• 😱 Google caught cheating off Claude's homework!

• 🔍 ChatGPT Search exposed: Can't trust what you see?

• 📈 OpenAI's identity crisis: "It's complicated"

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🤖 DeepSeek-V3 rewrites the AI playbook

China's AI game just leveled up with DeepSeek-V3, an open-source powerhouse reshaping the AI landscape. It's more than a model—it’s a statement. With skills in coding, translation, and writing, it’s taking on the big players like Meta’s Llama 3.1 and OpenAI’s GPT-4. And the early results? Jaw-dropping

Here’s what’s game-changing:

The Numbers Behind the Hype

What makes V3 a game-changer?

• Brains & Brawn: A massive 671 billion parameters powered by a Mixture-of-Experts architecture—fast, cost-efficient, and razor-sharp.

• Cost-Saving Genius: Training wrapped up in just two months, costing only $5.57M. That’s peanuts compared to the $500M+ price tag on some rivals.

• Benchmarks to Beat: Exceptional at math and Chinese language tasks, while holding its ground against top closed-source models across the board.

• A GPT Shadow?: Critics note its tendency to “think” it’s ChatGPT, likely because of GPT-generated training data. A quirk or a flaw? You decide.

Why It Matters

This isn’t just about another AI model. It’s about what DeepSeek-V3 represents:

• Open-Source Revolution: High-performance models without sky-high budgets.

• Breaking Barriers: Chinese models are thriving, despite U.S. chip restrictions.

• Closing the Gap: The line between open and closed AI systems is blurrier than ever.

DeepSeek-V3 proves you don’t need a mountain of resources to build something extraordinary. The AI world is watching—are you?

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• Google is using Anthropic’s chatbot, Claude, to improve the performance of its own AI model, Gemini, by getting its team of contractors to compare the answers and outputs generated by both models,—assessing responses for truthfulness and verbosity—and establish which response is best.

• A UK newspaper (The Guardian) has found that OpenAI’s AI search engine—ChatGPT Search (which went live to all users, earlier this month)—can be manipulated and tricked into giving misleading, false search information, containing secret content, and generate entirely false summaries, like ignoring bad reviews, and just focusing on positive ones.

• OpenAI officially published its plans to transform into a public benefit corporation, posting a blog detailing the company’s controversial shift will convert OpenAI's for-profit arm into a Delaware-based PBC, with the original nonprofit gaining ‘significant’ shares in the new entity, also enabling massive funding abilities for future AI development.

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