LWiAI Podcast #198 - DeepSeek R1 & Janus, Qwen2.5, OpenAI Agents

Our 198th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!
Recorded on 01/31/2024

Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.
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In this episode:

- DeepSeek releases R1, a competitive AI model comparable to OpenAI’s O1, leading to market unrest and significant drops in tech stocks, including a 17% plunge in NVIDIA's stock.
- OpenAI launches Operator to facilitate agentic computer use, while facing competition from new releases by DeepSeek and Quen, with applications seeing rapid adoption.
- President Trump revokes the Biden administration's executive order on AI, signaling a shift in AI policy and deregulation efforts.
- Taiwanese government clears TSMC to produce advanced 2-nanometer chip technology abroad, aiming to strengthen global semiconductor supply amidst geopolitical tensions.

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Timestamps + Links:

(00:00:00) Intro / Banter

(00:03:01) Response to listener comments

Projects & Open Source

(00:06:26) DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

(00:30:25) Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family

(00:34:07) Qwen2.5-1M Technical Report

(00:38:32) Alibaba’s Qwen team releases AI models that can control PCs and phones

Tools & Apps

(00:42:09) OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously

(00:47:37) DeepSeek reaches No. 1 on US Play Store