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Is Claude Code the Revolution?

By Amir Efrati and Rocket Drew · Jan 12, 2026 7:00am PST · 1 comment

Before we get to today’s column, we wanted to point you to Kevin’s Saturday scoop about a longtime Google DeepMind director raising capital for a visual reasoning AI startup and our Friday scoop about DeepSeek’s upcoming V4 model, which insiders say is great at coding. Major U.S.-based AI developers are waiting with bated breath to see... Before we get to today’s column, we wanted to point you to Kevin’s Saturday scoop about a...

Chatbots Get Cheaper; Anthropic Reigns Supreme in Coding

Chatbots Get Cheaper; Anthropic Reigns Supreme in Coding

By Aaron Holmes · Jun 19, 2025 10:26am PDT

When DeepSeek released its high-performing open-source artificial intelligence earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicted that the price of AI models and applications would soon come under pressure. And he said that trend would prevent any one company from gaining a permanent advantage over others in selling AI to... When DeepSeek released its high-performing open-source artificial intelligence earlier this year,...

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Are Enterprises Actually Using Reasoning Models?

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Mar 13, 2025 8:34am PDT

The excitement around reasoning models like OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1 got me thinking: How much are businesses actually using them? The answer might be: not as much as you’d think.When I ask business executives at startups and large firms about their companies’ usage of reasoning models to power their products, a common refrain I’ve... The excitement around reasoning models like OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1 got me thinking: How...

Left to right: Atomicwork's founders Kiran Darisi, Vijay Rayapati and Parsuram Vijay. Photo via Atomicwork.

Pro Weekly: Freshly Funded AI Founders Go Deep on DeepSeek

By Akash Pasricha · Jan 31, 2025 8:00am PST

Left to right: Atomicwork's founders Kiran Darisi, Vijay Rayapati and Parsuram Vijay. Photo via Atomicwork.

Pro Weekly: Freshly Funded AI Founders Go Deep on DeepSeek

By Akash Pasricha · Jan 31, 2025 8:00am PST

China’s DeepSeek rocked the technology world this week with its innovative and cheaper large language model. The founders of companies we’ve newly added to our Generative AI Database tell me they’ve been studying DeepSeek’s approach and thinking about how it could help their businesses.Geraldo Ramos, co-founder and CEO of Music AI—which... China’s DeepSeek rocked the technology world this week with its innovative and cheaper large...

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DeepSeek’s Success Contrasts With China AI Startups’ Struggles

By Juro Osawa · Jan 31, 2025 6:00am PST · 4 comments

DeepSeek has shaken up Silicon Valley and Wall Street with its stunning advances in artificial intelligence. But its technological success doesn’t mean China’s AI industry has figured out how to make money. The rise of DeepSeek contrasts with the struggles of other Chinese competitors, especially the best-known AI unicorns dubbed the... DeepSeek has shaken up Silicon Valley and Wall Street with its stunning advances in artificial...

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Goldman Sachs Is Interested In DeepSeek Too

By Jon Victor · Jan 30, 2025 10:00am PST

How fast is DeepSeek open source artificial intelligence taking over the business world? Look no further than Meta Platforms, which is evaluating whether to use the Chinese-made AI in its advertising products despite spending the past two years developing its own Llama open-source models, my colleague Kalley reported Wednesday. Also this... How fast is DeepSeek open source artificial intelligence taking over the business world? Look no...

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DeepSeek Attracts Surge of Business Users

By Jon Victor · Jan 28, 2025 10:00am PST

The DeepSeek open-source reasoning model, R1, has barely been out for a week, but businesses are already champing at the bit to use the Chinese model in their products because it’s so cheap compared to American ones.Take ZoomInfo, a provider of data about businesses, which its customers use as sales leads. The company already found that it could... The DeepSeek open-source reasoning model, R1, has barely been out for a week, but businesses are...

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Is DeepSeek an Extinction Event?; A New Reasoning-Focused AI Lab Lands Funding

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jan 28, 2025 7:00am PST · 4 comments

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Is DeepSeek an Extinction Event?; A New Reasoning-Focused AI Lab Lands Funding

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jan 28, 2025 7:00am PST · 4 comments

If you spent any time yesterday or this weekend on X, you might have concluded that AI developers, venture capitalists, Nvidia and cloud providers are totally screwed, thanks to new uber-cheap and impressive AI models from High-Flyer Capital Management, a Chinese hedge fund.The truth is a lot more nuanced, though, and there are still a lot of... If you spent any time yesterday or this weekend on X, you might have concluded that AI...

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Investors’ Deep Search For AI Meaning

By Martin Peers · Jan 27, 2025 5:00pm PST · 1 comment

Talk about a jittery market! Shares of some tech firms exposed to artificial intelligence tumbled today, prompted by new evidence that China’s DeepSeek is giving AI folks in the U.S. a run for their money. Nvidia and Broadcom each fell 17%, while Alphabet dropped 4% and Microsoft 2%. Oh, and let’s not forget Oracle, a small player in the... Talk about a jittery market! Shares of some tech firms exposed to artificial intelligence tumbled...

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DeepSeek’s Implications For AI; Why Stargate Should Be Taken Seriously

By Anissa Gardizy · Jan 27, 2025 7:00am PST · 2 comments

Before we get to our main item, I’d recommend you read yesterday’s scoop about Meta Platforms and other American developers reacting to the threat posed by DeepSeek, the hottest new artificial intelligence model (and consumer mobile app!) that has been sweeping the industry.On to the news…Last week I was at one of the largest data center... Before we get to our main item, I’d recommend you read yesterday’s scoop about Meta Platforms and...

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DeepSeek Shows Necessity Is The Mother of Invention

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Dec 30, 2024 7:18am PST · 7 comments

While the rest of us were recovering from heavy Christmas dinners and too much time with relatives, Chinese quant trading firm High-Flyer Capital Management dropped the latest update on Thursday to DeepSeek, its open-weight large language model. Senior researchers at American firms including OpenAI and Meta Platforms almost immediately started... While the rest of us were recovering from heavy Christmas dinners and too much time with...