DeepSeek or DeepFake? Our vultures circle China’s hottest AI

Kettle There’s really only one topic for the Kettle this week. DeepSeek.

What began as a Chinese hedge-fund venture has blown away nearly a trillion dollars in stock market value from Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta. But are DeepSeek’s freely available V3 and just-released R1 LLMs all they are cracked up to be? We have our doubts, as we discussed below for this week’s episode.

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Joining us is Tim Prickett-Morgan of The Next Platform, Tobias Mann and Iain Thomson of The Register, and editor-in-chief Chris Williams.

Tim dived into the backend tech at DeepSeek here, and Tobias described how to run the DeepSeek R1 locally over here. Our 20-minute catch-up may contain technical assessments and derisory sarcasm.

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