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DeepSeek in Africa
Earlier this year, a Chinese company called DeepSeek took the AI world by surprise by releasing an incredibly cheap, performant reasoning model called DeepSeek R1. The result was an outpour of commentary on how Meta’s open sourcing of Llama led to its creation, whether or not the reported lower training cost for DeepSeeek’s model meant the end of NVIDIA’s business, and whether...