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#198 - DeepSeek R1 & Janus, Qwen2.5, OpenAI Agents
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- Last Week in AI
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- Feb 2, 2025
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Our 198th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 01/31/2024 Join our brand new Discord here! https://discord.gg/nTyezGSKwP Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris . Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at [email protected] and/or [email protected] Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ . In this episode: - DeepSeek releases R1, a competitive AI model comparable to OpenAI’s O1, leading to market unrest and significant drops in tech stocks, including a 17% plunge in NVIDIA's stock. - OpenAI launches Operator to facilitate agentic computer use, while facing competition from new releases by DeepSeek and Quen, with applications seeing rapid adoption. - President Trump revokes the Biden administration's executive order on AI, signaling a shift in AI policy and deregulation efforts. - Taiwanese government clears TSMC to produce advanced 2-nanometer chip technology abroad, aiming to strengthen global semiconductor supply amidst geopolitical tensions. If you would like to become a sponsor for the newsletter, podcast, or both, please fill out this form . Timestamps + Links: (00:00:00) Intro / Banter (00:03:01) Response to listener comments Projects & Open Source (00:06:26) DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning (00:30:25) Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family (00:34:07) Qwen2.5-1M Technical Report (00:38:32) Alibaba’s Qwen team releases AI models that can control PCs and phones Tools & Apps (00:42:09) OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously (00:47:37) DeepSeek reaches No. 1 on US Play Store (00:52:17) Alibaba rolled out Qwen Chat v0.2 and Qwen2.5-1M model (00:53:50) Perpl…