DeepSeek R2 AI Model Rumors Begin to Swirl Online; Reported to Feature 97% Lower Costs Compared to GPT-4 & Fully Trained on Huawei's Ascend Chips

DeepSeek R2 AI Model Rumors Begin to Swirl Online; Reported to Feature 97% Lower Costs Compared to GPT-4 & Fully Trained on Huawei's Ascend Chips

Well, it seems like the Chinese firm DeepSeek is set to drop another model into the market pretty soon, as details about their next "DeepSeek R2" model have surfaced on the internet. DeepSeek R2 Could Potentially Disrupt The AI Markets Once Again; Said To Be Trained Dominantly By Huawei's AI Chips DeepSeek's first mainstream model, the R1, showed the Western world that China isn't behind at all when it comes to developing high-end AI models. Chi…

DeepSeek R2 Leak Reveals 512 PetaFLOPS Push on Domestic AI Accelerator Infrastructure

DeepSeek, a company that took the AI world by storm with its R1 model, is preparing a new and reportedly much improved DeepSeek R2 model release, according to a well-known AI insider @iruletheworldmo on X. Powered by Huawei's Ascend 910B chip clusters, a possible Huawei Atlas 900, and DeepSeek's in-house distributed training framework, R2 pushes these accelerators to an impressive 82% utilization, translating to 512 PetaFLOPS of FP16 performance…

What Exactly is AI distillation? How did DeepSeek Use It So Effectively?

In recent months, the AI research community has been abuzz with talk of “distillation”—a process that turbocharges large language models, making them smaller, faster, and, astonishingly, sometimes as capable as their hulking progenitors. Nowhere did distillation’s power become clearer than in early 2024, when a little-known Chinese company called DeepSeek unleashed DeepSeek-V2. This open-source model achieved near-parity with OpenAI’s flagship G…