Learning about DeepSeek today …

• This great FAQ from Ben Thompson digs into why this is big deal, why it might be good in the long run, and also provides a nice background on different reinforcement learning approaches.
• You’d be right to think DeepSeek, an AI model from a Chinese company, doesn’t want to talk about some things.
• DeepSeek was surprisingly cheap to train and is very cheap to use (compared to similar models from OpenAI and Anthropic).