Month: January 2025

ChatGPT developer OpenAI and other players in the generative AI business were caught unawares this week by a Chinese company named DeepSeek, whose open source R1 simulated reasoning model provides results similar to OpenAI's best paid models (with some notable exceptions) despite being created using just a fraction of the computing power.

Since ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and other generative AI models first became publicly available in late 2022 and 2023, the US AI industry has been undergirded by the assumption that you'd need ever-greater amounts of training data and compute power to continue improving their models and get—eventually, maybe—to a functioning version of artificial general intelligence, or AGI.

Those assumptions were reflected in everything from Nvidia's stock price to energy investments and data center plans. Whether DeepSeek fundamentally upends those plans remains to be seen. But at a bare minimum, it has shaken investors who have poured money into OpenAI, a company that reportedly believes it won't turn a profit until the end of the decade.

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The Asus Zenbook A14 thin and light laptop that debuted during CES 2025 is now available for purchase in the US. While Asus designed the laptop to meet a variety of price points ranging from $899 to $1500, the first model available in the US is a mid-range configuration that features a 1920 x 1200 pixel […]

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Bei Amazon gibt es ein interessantes Angebot zu einem großen Smart-TV. Der TCL 55V6B ist dort zum Sparpreis erhältlich. (TV & Monitore, Heimkino)

Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop for Business is a laptop with support for up to an Intel Core Ultra 7 268V Lunar Lake processor, 32GB of LPDDR5x memory, and a choice of 13.8 inch or 15 inch IPS LCD displays with 201 pixels per inch, 120 Hz refresh rates, and 3:2 aspect ratios. And the new Surface Pro […]

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Trotzdem gilt der Asteroid von der Größe eines Fußballfeldes als einer der gefährlichsten bislang. (Asteroid, Raumfahrt)

Fresh on the heels of a controversy in which ChatGPT-maker OpenAI accused the Chinese company behind DeepSeek R1 of using its AI model outputs against its terms of service, OpenAI's largest investor, Microsoft, announced on Wednesday that it will now host DeepSeek R1 on its Azure cloud service.

DeepSeek R1 has been the talk of the AI world for the past week because it is a freely available simulated reasoning model that reportedly matches OpenAI's o1 in performance—while allegedly being trained for a fraction of the cost.

Azure allows software developers to rent computing muscle from machines hosted in Microsoft-owned data centers, as well as rent access to software that runs on them.

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Der Discounter bietet für kurze Zeit einen Aktionstarif für unter 10 Euro. Auch Bestandskunden können in den Smartphone-Tarif wechseln. (Tchibo, Mobilfunk)

Bei Amazon gibt es derzeit die beliebte NAS von Ugreen zum Bestpreis zu kaufen, wobei Kunden bis zu 64 TB Speicher installieren können. (NAS, Storage)

Die beiden neuen Surface-Laptops und Surface Duo sollen auch mindestens 16 GByte RAM und eine austauschbare SSD unterstützen. (Surface, Microsoft)

Ein Entwickler hat ein Python-Programm geschrieben, mit dem ASCII-Text auf Lochstreifen geschrieben werden kann - mithilfe eines Lasercutters. (DIY - Do it yourself, Softwareentwicklung)