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China’s $300K AI Breakthrough: How DeepSeek’s Budget Model Shook the Tech World

DeepSeek R1: Technical Specs and Performance DeepSeek R1 is a large language model built to excel at reasoning-intensive tasks such as complex problem solving, coding, and mathematics scientificamerican.com. Under the hood, R1 is remarkable both for its scale and its design philosophy: In sum, DeepSeek R1’s technical profile – huge but efficient, open yet high-performing – upended conventional thinking in AI. It showed that a focused, lean-budget project could produce a model rivaling the best from Google or OpenAI on certain tasks businessinsider.com. As MIT CSAIL researchers noted, R1’s success “significantly increase[s] the pace of AI development” by “letting the

18 September 2025

AlphaEvolve: DeepMind’s Gemini-Powered AI That Invents Algorithms and Breaks a 56-Year Record

In mid-2025, Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaEvolve, an AI coding agent that uses Google’s Gemini LLMs, an evolutionary search process, and automated testing to autonomously design and improve algorithms. AlphaEvolve generates, tests, and evolves programs in an autonomous pipeline, refining entire codebases rather than a single function. It discovered a 4×4 matrix multiplication method over the complex domain using 48 multiplications, beating Strassen’s 49 from 1969 for the first time in 56 years. It devised a data-center scheduling algorithm that recovers about 0.7% of Google’s worldwide compute capacity, with the code in production for over a year. In hardware, it produced

17 July 2025

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