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- Nov 28, 2021
Just noticed this on shitter:
Researchers recreated DeepSeek's core technology for just $30! A research team at the University of California, Berkeley, has reportedly recreated the core technology behind China’s advanced DeepSeek AI for just $30. This remarkably low-cost replication highlights a growing trend in AI development—while major tech companies produce impressive models, “garage” open source approaches significantly reduce the cost of building them. Under the leadership of Ph.D. candidate Jiayi Pan, the team successfully replicated DeepSeek R1-Zero’s reinforcement learning (RL) capabilities using a compact language model with just 3 billion parameters. Despite its smaller scale, the model demonstrated self-verification and search capabilities, allowing it to refine its own responses iteratively—key features of DeepSeek’s advanced AI.