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  • 2 months ago | msn.com | Robert Booth |Dan Milmo

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  • 2 months ago | theguardian.com | Robert Booth |Dan Milmo

    At 2.16pm California time last Sunday, the US billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen called it. “DeepSeek R1 is AI’s Sputnik moment,” he posted on X. A Chinese startup, operating since 2023 and helmed by a millennial mathematician, had unveiled a new chatbot that seemed to equal the performance of America’s leading models at a fraction of the cost.

  • 2 months ago | theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Robert Booth |Lucy Hough |Elizabeth Cassin

    The launch of a new chatbot by Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek triggered a plunge in US tech stocks as it appeared to perform as well as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI models but using fewer resources. Helen Pidd speaks to Robert Booth, the Guardian’s UK technology editor, about how DeepSeek did this, the model’s security and censorship and why the US AI industry has been shaken by the launch

  • 2 months ago | theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Robert Booth |Lucy Hough |Elizabeth Cassin

    DeepSeek, the Chinese company behind the new AI chatbot R1, uses less computing power and fewer chips than its rivals, and claims the model is far cheaper. “It’s sort of the biggest news in this space of AI chatbots since November 2022 when ChatGPT came out,” Robert Booth, the Guardian’s UK technology editor, tells Helen Pidd. “What they seem to have done is that they’ve worked out a way of doing more with less,” Robert explains.

  • 2 months ago | theguardian.com | Robert Booth |Angela Giuffrida

    The Chinese AI platform DeepSeek has become unavailable for download from some app stores in Italy as regulators in Rome and in Ireland demanded answers from the company about its handling of citizens’ data.

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Robert Booth
Robert Booth @Robert_Booth
6 Dec 24

This is why greater transparency about the use of AI in UK public sector seems to be urgently needed. Anyone with first hand info about its application please get in touch. https://t.co/lMKPaJBxgy

Robert Booth
Robert Booth @Robert_Booth
28 Nov 24

Is the UK “flying blind” about the deployment of AI in the public sector? It is too difficult to find out what algorithms are being used, where and with what effect. Any insiders who might shed light, please do get in touch in confidence. https://t.co/CMcEL7QtEJ

Robert Booth
Robert Booth @Robert_Booth
25 Nov 24

I’m now tweeting over at Bluesky on https://t.co/qb2VKOMyTB