This AI is as good as ChatGPT o1, and it was built for under $50
DeepSeek R1 stunned the world last week as its developers explained they could train an open-source reasoning AI as good as ChatGPT o1 at a … The post This AI is as good as ChatGPT o1, and it was built for under $50 appeared first on BGR.
DeepSeek R1 stunned the world last week as its developers explained they could train an open-source reasoning AI as good as ChatGPT o1 at a fraction of the cost. Suddenly, anyone could create powerful AI models with the right combination of software innovations and decent hardware. The DeepSeek research implied that the focus wouldn't be on high-end hardware anymore, and this tanked get AI tech stocks like NVIDIA.
As we now know, however, that's not exactly the case. The DeepSeek software innovations, as interesting as they might be, do not tell the whole story. In the days following the R1 release, we learned that DeepSeek might have used ChatGPT answers to train its AI. OpenAI accused the Chinese company of distilling its ChatGPT models themselves. Separately, we saw indirect evidence that suggests DeepSeek is indeed based on outputs from ChatGPT.
This indicates that DeepSeek circumvented development costs by potentially pulling from competitor AIs that were already established. As the full picture formed, the stock market recovered most of its losses.
I'm telling you all this because I'm about to show you an equally mind-blowing experiment. Researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington trained a reasoning AI called S1 that's as good as ChatGPT o1. They did it for just $50 in compute costs using the same DeepSeek twist. They distilled a version of Gemini and used an open-source AI from China.
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