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Chinese AI startupDeepSeekhit the tech world by storm after achieving the seemingly impossible.

We were tracking DeepSeek when it launched like a month before it then became this major news item.

Andrew Bosworth, chief technology officer of Meta Platforms Inc.

Andrew Bosworth, CTO of Meta Platforms Inc.

DeepSeek’s launch is a big deal because it’s a great open-source innovation.

They’ve done some really truly great and novel work in memory architectures for model building.

They’ve certainly advanced the state of the art for reasoning models.

Satya Nadella contemplating during the annual Microsoft shareholders meeting.

They’ve probably done a lot of distilling against existing models.

DeepSeek is a “great thing, but it’s not a world-changing thing,” concluded Bosworth.

Admittedly, DeepSeek’s emergence has raised some eyebrows in the industry.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc.

However, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella touted DeepSeek as super impressive and that it’s good for business.

Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta Platforms Inc.

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