Author: gekko
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The AI Gold Rush Just Got Interesting: How China’s DeepSeek R1 is Giving Silicon Valley a Run for Its (Literal) Money
Remember when running powerful AI models was like trying to maintain a private jet? You needed a small fortune, a dedicated team, and probably your own power plant. Well, folks, the times they are a-changin’, and China’s DeepSeek R1 just crashed the exclusive AI party wearing jeans and a t-shirt. The “Wait, What Just Happened?”…
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The Weight of Knowledge: Connecting Project Strawberry to a Physicist’s Sweet Revelation
The internet is a marvelously massive-yet-intangible construct. It’s so vast that we’ve spent decades trying to quantify its storage, traffic, and even its weight. Yes, you read that right: the internet has a weight. According to physicist Russell Seitz, the entirety of the internet’s data—when considered in terms of the electrons required to store and…
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OpenAI’s Operator: When AI Gets Its Own Browser (And Why That’s Both Cool and Scary)
Remember when we thought teaching our grandparents to use a browser was challenging? Well, OpenAI just handed a browser to an AI, and surprisingly, it’s doing better than most of our relatives at online shopping. Welcome to the era of Operator, OpenAI’s latest creation that might just change how we interact with the internet –…
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When AI Gets Brain Fog: Google’s Titans Fights ChatGPT Amnesia
Have you ever had one of those conversations with ChatGPT where it starts brilliantly but slowly descends into what feels like talking to someone who’s had way too many espressos? You know the type – where it begins by eloquently discussing quantum physics but ends up forgetting what you were talking about just three messages…
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Small LLMs: A Contradiction in Terms or a Giant in Disguise?
When one hears the phrase “Small LLMs”—short for “Small Large Language Models”—it might sound like a contradiction, like “jumbo shrimp” or “deafening silence.” After all, how can something be both “large” and “small”? However, the concept of small LLMs is not an oxymoron but rather a response to the growing need for efficiency, accessibility, and…