What is DeepSeek and why is it disrupting the AI sector?

On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 at 16:22, Ronald Ojino via KICTANet <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Victor et al.,
>
> Indeed the events of the past couple of days have been striking. The truth
> of the matter is that the economics of the current offerings from key LLM
> providers are unsustainable and were limited to ‘Big tech’ till Deep Seek
> showed up and in a massive way disrupting the entire space .
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>
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> Can we safely predict that a future Llama release from Meta will likely
> incorporate DeepSeek’s approach of using reinforcement learning rather than
> massive labelled datasets.
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> The key takeaway for us all is that there’s now real competition based on
> efficiency and optimization—open to many, rather than confined to just a
> few….which indeed gives Kenya and Africa a platform to complete and
> develop innovative AI solutions as it ushers in a special era for open
> source.
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> We however need to cautious as Deepseek seems to claim ownership of the AI
> generated outputs.
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> Regards,
>
>
> Dr. Ojino
>
> ICT Consultant/Researcher
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM Victor Kapiyo via KICTANet <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Chinese startup DeepSeek’s launch of its latest AI models, which it says
>> are on a par or better than industry-leading models in the United States at
>> a fraction of the cost, is threatening to upset the technology world order.
>>
>> The company has attracted attention in global AI circles after writing in
>> a paper last month that the training of DeepSeek-V3 required less than $6
>> million worth of computing power from Nvidia H800 chips.
>>
>> DeepSeek’s AI Assistant, powered by DeepSeek-V3, has overtaken rival
>> ChatGPT to become the top-rated free application available on Apple’s App
>> Store in the United States.
>>
>> Read more :
>> www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/what-is-deepseek-why-is-it-disrupting-ai-sector-2025-01-27/
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>> This seems like a good opportunity for African countries to develop and
>> implement low-cost AI solutions.
>>