pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
Mike Pound
@mikepound.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. I love telling people about computers, including on the Computerphile YouTube channel.
What DeepSeek has just done is approach the performance of a flagship model from OpenAI using modest hardware and a very smart training approach. It screws with the idea that (a) you need a data centre to compete, (b) bigger is always better, and (c) that closed source AI is going to be viable
Have transferred the turkey to the fridge. Hoping to avoid another year like the one where I forgot to defrost it and was outside with a bucket of water at 4am.
Academics finishing the semester: FINALLY I can start working on my work!
Stuff is very busy at the moment, so why is my brain telling me to order the bits for an 8 bit breadboard computer? I do not have time, brain! eater.net/8bit/
Ben Eater
I create tutorial-style videos about electronics, computer architecture, networking, and various other technical subjects.
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Created an account! Now to learn how to do things on this site..