AI Reading for Saturday February 1
OpenAI slaps back hard at DeepSeek R1 with o3-mini, which is now cheaper but similar quality. - OpenAI
Has full API with function calling and structured outputs for agents, system prompt, no temperature. - OpenAI
I think they kept same price as o1-mini, didn't go down, but benchmarks better than full o1 on at least some tasks.
Cheaper than DeepSeek R1 and same quality, per ArtificialAnalysis.ai meta-analysis - ArtificialAnalysis.ai
A first look at o3-mini. - Simon Willison
OpenAI probably doesn't have much recourse against DeepSeek if the latter 'distilled' OpenAI models - Business Insider
OpenAI outputs not human-created so copyright can't apply
TOS may be unenforceable if OpenAI has no valid IP interest
They will have to go to China to enforce it, good luck with that, pick up some replica Mahomes jerseys and Vuitton while you are there.
ChatGPT Subscribers Nearly Tripled to 15.5 Million in 2024. - The Information
DeepSeek’s Answers Include Chinese Propaganda, Researchers Say - NY Times
Tired: DeepSeek is so efficient it's bad for Nvidia. Wired: Everybody needs more Nvidia chips to run DeepSeek - Business Insider
DeepSeek considered unsafe…few guardrails, except about China red lines like the 9-dash line - WIRED
Zuck to staff: buckle up buttercups - Business Insider
The great open source debate. - WSJ
Alludes to but doesn't delve into randos having the an incredibly sophisticated AI assistant to help synthesize sarin and chemical weapons, cultivate anthrax and bioweapons, nukes, killer drones. Don't need Google if you can run DeepSeek R1 on a $10K PC.
Have we hit peak tech bro? - FT
Google Deep Research vs. Perplexity Pro - Geeky Gadgets
In my experience they are not amazeballs but can help with ideation, lowering the activation energy to jumpstart researching something. OpenAI with the Web search enabled too.
What YC is looking for in AI startups - Reddit
Quartz AI Slop is Sloppy - Futurism
Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI's impact on society and business - TechCrunch
Chrome Extension Hides Google's AI Features - Lifehacker
Google engineers hate this one trick: cursing - Gizmodo
The global AI race: Is China catching up to the US? - FT
Parents of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji seek San Francisco police records - The Mercury News
Exxon says it can build natural gas power plants that recapture 90% of CO2. big if true. - Fortune
Man uses AI to automate extreme stalking and harassment - the Guardian
Canadian candidates suggest tariffs on Teslas, oil supply disruptions as Trump threatens tariffs. - FT
OK we don’t like Mexico and China over fentanyl and whatnot but what’s our beef with Canada again? I wonder what other taxes and laws Trump is allowed to unilaterally impose without legislation originating in the House according to the Constitution. Whatever this is, they didn’t teach it in social studies. People seem in denial that the guy is wacko, fascist AF, KKK-adjacent racist AF. Nuts.
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