Links from January 2025
OpenAI o3-mini released.
This model continues our track record of driving down the cost of intelligence—reducing per-token pricing by 95% since launching GPT‑4—while maintaining top-tier reasoning capabilities.
DeepSeek hit with ‘large-scale’ cyber-attack after AI chatbot tops app stores - Attack forces Chinese company to temporarily limit registrations as app becomes highest rated free app in US.
I noted I could access the chat signup page after a few refreshes but the api signup was constantly throwing 500.
On DeepSeek and Export Controls - CEO of Anthropic shares his take on DeepSeek - It’s not as good as everyone says it is, but China needs to be further restricted from chips anyway.
New image model family: Janus-Pro - DeepSeek creators just dropped a stable diffusion competitor.
Janus-Pro, which DeepSeek describes as a “novel autoregressive framework,” can both analyze and create new images… and most Janus-Pro models can only analyze small images with a resolution of up to 384 x 384.
This course will teach you about natural language processing (NLP) using libraries from the Hugging Face ecosystem
The Short Case for Nvidia Stock, a 60min read, but, also a very good overview of the current state of ai, including cerebras + deepseek.
Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek
The open-source availability of DeepSeek-R1, its high performance, and the fact that it seemingly “came out of nowhere” to challenge the former leader of generative AI, has sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley and far beyond
The “First AI Software Engineer” Is Bungling the Vast Majority of Tasks It’s Asked to Do - It took longer than a human, and failed at the vast majority of tasks.
Out of 20 tasks we attempted, we saw 14 failures, three inconclusive results, and just three successes,” the researchers found — a meager success rate of just 15 percent.
Ignore the Grifters - AI Isn’t Going to Kill the Software Industry
It’s highly unlikely that software developers are going away any time soon. The job is definitely going to change, but I think there are going to be even more opportunities for software developers to make a comfortable living making cool stuff.