How Does Deepseek AI Actually Work? What Makes It Different?
Author(s): Sakshi Shruti
Originally published on Towards AI.
⚠️ Insanely cheap AI model is disrupting the market
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I know you might have already come across this new wave of AI model turning the world upside down in ways that nobody saw coming.
Because who would have thought a 2023-based mere startup somewhere in the world would come up with such a revolution, and beat tech giants in their own game with what? one-tenth of the computing power of a comparable large language model.
You might be thinking, Why should you care about this? Well in short this is just as same as you experiencing a Ferrari performance in Maruti 800. That’s essentially what DeepSeek is doing in the generative AI industry. They are providing better performance than open AI for a fraction of the cost i.e. 96% less cost ($60 → $0.55). Isn’t that mind blowing?
Let’s begin..
AI models in companies like Openai and Anthropic used to learn and train on the massive amount of data gathered from all over the internet to train AI models.
Water water all around but not a drop to drink ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Here’s the problem, with the quality of data. Most of the good data and authentic data have… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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