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DeepSeek kicks off AI industry earthquake

Last week, Chinese AI company DeepSeek caused an earthquake in the western tech world.
What happened: DeepSeek released an open source-ish AI model, on par with models released by world leaders such as OpenAI, that can be trained and operated with significantly fewer chips.

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