Some notable improvements to a branch of computer science are coming down to conjuring up the right incantation words.
OpenAI has reportedlycried fowlabout the Chinese DeepSeek team training off its model outputs.
The irony is not lost on most people.
A new language model with reasoning capabilities was trained by researchers using less than $50.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
The model essentially piggybacked off all the training of Gemini, getting a cheat sheet.
Good, but still lossy.
It seems even leaders at companies like Google skim over text generated by AI without fact-checking it.
Is OpenAI doomed if its models can easily be copied by anyone?
Defenders of the company say that language models were always destined to be commodified.
OpenAI, along with Google and others, will succeed building useful applications on top of the models.
Open source AI comes with its own concerns.
Inference, the actual processing of each user query submitted to a model, is expected to remain costly.
And OpenAIs$500 billion server farm projectwill not be a waste.
That is so long as all this hype around AI is not just a bubble.
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Two banks say Amazon has paused negotiations on some international data centers.
