DeepSeek-R1 Cheaper & BETTER?! 🍭

Today’s Menu 🥠

• Money Bags ElevenLabs HUGE Valuation

• The Battle Between DeepSeek and OpenAI

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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Anthropic's Citations Tackles AI Hallucination Problem
Anthropic drops its Citations feature to make AI outputs less fantasy, more fact. Now Claude 3.5 can reference exact sources, but this fact-check luxury isn’t free.

Mark Zuckerberg's $65 Billion Bet on AI Dominance
Mark Zuckerberg is throwing down $65 billion by 2025 to solidify Meta's place in the AI big leagues. At the center of this plan is a sprawling data center in Louisiana reportedly so huge it could cover a significant chunk of Manhattan.

DockFix 3.5
Version 3.5 now features notification badges, reserve screen space to prevent apps from overlapping the dock, website shortcuts, custom app icons, smoother animations, and a redesigned user interface.

$$$ Ballin’
ElevenLabs Bags $250M, Valued at $3B

ElevenLabs has just raised $250M at a valuation of $3B, proving it’s the voice everyone wants to hear. 👀

With clients like Washington Post and HarperCollins, ElevenLabs’ synthetic voice tools are setting the standard for AI-powered audio. Sure, there’s competition from big dogs like Google, but with skyrocketing revenue growth and a mix of safeguards to prevent misuse, they're carving out their niche.

If you still haven’t tried ElevanLabs you should check it out, just know you’ll be mind blown. Be ready.

The Race Is On
DeepSeek Beats OpenAI With Cheaper, Open-Source Genius

The AI community has been shaken by DeepSeek. 

Its latest large language model, DeepSeek-R1, has emerged as a formidable contender in the AI space, sparking widespread attention and a flurry of conversations globally.

DeepSeek-R1’s most notable achievement lies in its reasoning abilities, which rival and, in some cases, surpass those of OpenAI’s GPT-4. Leveraging a "chain of thought" methodology, DeepSeek-R1 excels in step-by-step problem-solving, setting a new benchmark for AI's cognitive prowess.

This advancement showcases not only DeepSeek’s technical brilliance but also highlights an exceptional cost-efficiency. Unlike its Western counterparts that have poured tens of millions into similar models, DeepSeek-R1 was developed for approximately $5 million, utilizing fewer GPUs despite stringent U.S. export restrictions on advanced chips to China.

In a move that differentiates it from competitors, DeepSeek has chosen to make DeepSeek-R1 fully open-source. This decision has fueled rapid adoption and customization within the AI development community.

Open-source accessibility has empowered researchers and developers to tweak the model to suit specific needs, thereby accelerating innovation at an unprecedented pace.

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Everything Else You Need To Know 📈

Two Billionaires, One Trump, Zero chill: Musk and Sam Altman are feuding over Trump and a $500B AI project. The tech bros’ battle royale proves that even billionaires can be petty on social media.

Apple’s New API Wants a Cut of Everything: We already know Apple kinda acts like a bunch of asshole entitled kids and they just dropped the Advanced Commerce API, a shiny new way to level up in-app purchases. Of course the App Store's commission isn’t going anywhere.

Meta Tests Ads on Threads, Heads Up America & Japan: Ads are coming to Threads. Meta’s latest move brings sponsored content to the U.S. & Japan. But don’t panic yet—they’re trying to make them as un-annoying as possible. We’ll see.

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5 Trending AI Tools

Llamao: Powered by open-source LLM models, this ensures total privacy while you work, travel, or explore. Enjoy seamless productivity without internet access.

Co.dev: Skip the complexity, high costs, and limitations of no-code tools—co.dev lets you create scalable, modern full-stack apps using natural language, all while keeping full ownership of your code.

Apollo AI: An app for running local models privately on your iOS device. Once downloaded, these models can be used offline with no internet connection at all.

VMTP: Visual Media Transcription Protocol is a video processing protocol for LLMs. Using this, you can let your LLMs & AI agents understand video input.

Llama Stack: Defines and standardizes genAI agentic application development in various environments, on-prem, cloud, single-node, on-device, through a standard API interface and developer experience that’s optimized for use with Llama models.

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