DeepSeek-R1: Do we need less compute now?

from blog John D. Cook, | ↗ original
The reactions to the new DeepSeek-R1 AI model in recent days seem limitless. Some say it runs so much faster than existing models that we will no longer need the billions of dollars in compute hardware that big tech is preparing to buy. Is that plausible? To get an answer, we need only look […] The post DeepSeek-R1: Do we need less compute now?...