"DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley earlier this year with its sudden ascent onto the global tech scene, is reportedly gearing up to launch its most powerful AI system yet. The company aims to release an AI agent to compete with similar models from OpenAI, Google, and other tech giants by the end of this year, according to a Thursday from Bloomberg, which cited anonymous sources."
"Also: What is sparsity? DeepSeek AI's secret, revealed by Apple researchers In contrast to traditional chatbots, which require consistent prompting from human users, agents can autonomously execute multi-step tasks with little to no human oversight. Tech developers have been promoting them as the next rung in AI's evolutionary ladder, and as productivity boosters for businesses looking to automate some mundane and time-consuming aspects of everyday work."
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, plans to launch an AI agent by the end of the year to compete with OpenAI, Google, and other tech giants. Agents can autonomously execute multi-step tasks with little to no human oversight, enabling automation of mundane and time-consuming business work. DeepSeek released R1 in January, an AI model noted for clearly describing its reasoning process to users. R1 reportedly cost about $6 million to build and was released open source, allowing developers to access its code and build applications for free. R1's debut challenged the prevailing "bigger is better" paradigm in AI development.
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