China saved open-source LLMs.
In the past few months, China has released some of the best open-source models (GLM 4.6, Kimi K2, DeepSeek v3.2, Minimax M2) for free.
Meanwhile:
- OpenAI hasn't released any open-source model since GPT-OSS
- Meta is struggling to keep up with China’s open-source progress
- Anthropic has no plans to release open-source models
The future of open-source AI is being built in China.
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🚨BREAKING: China just broke a world record with 16,000 AI-powered drones flying perfectly together, controlled by a smart Al system.
This happened at Liuyang, Hunan, famously known as the "Home of Fireworks"
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The next video in the Laplace Transform sequence is up!
piped.video/FE-hM1kRK4Y
Here, we dig into a concrete example, the forced oscillator. Some of you may remember that this was relevant for studying why light slows down in a medium.
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Why are Chinese companies and startups open-sourcing like crazy whereas American ones don't?
Where's the open-source AI from @Tinder @RobinhoodApp @NotionHQ @figma @Airbnb @DoorDash @Snapchat @stripe and the hundreds of successful American startups?
If they started doing it, in my opinion, it would unleash a phenomenal force (and greatly benefit them)!
China's open source is just on fire.
Soul, China's Tinder (?), has just open sourced their podcast model on @huggingface
huggingface.co/collections/S…
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Inspired by Brian Roemmele, I set up DeepSeek-OCR on colab. Even with a T4 GPU and 4-bit quantization, it scans a page in about 45 seconds. In this video, you can see that it compressed 527 text tokens to 249 image tokens.
DeepSeek-OCR is trained on nearly 100 languages, they say in their paper. So, I'm going to try using it on some old manuscripts written in indic languages soon.
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DeepSeek-OCR is out 🔥
huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/D…
✨High-accuracy OCR - MIT license
✨Fast GPU inference (FlashAttention 2, BF16)
✨Docs > Markdown
✨Works with transformers
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Bots Bots Bots, AI Slop, and the Death of the Internet x.com/i/broadcasts/1eaKbjeRD…
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Here's my 4+ hour conversation with Pavel Durov (@durov), founder and CEO of Telegram. This was one of the most fascinating and powerful conversations I've ever had in my life.
We discuss everything from his philosophy on freedom to government bureaucracies, intelligence agencies, human nature, mathematics, encryption, great engineering & design, education, family, and his philosophy on life.
It's here on X in full and is up everywhere else (see comment). It is translated and dubbed into Russian, Ukrainian, French, and Hindi.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
3:07 - Philosophy of freedom
6:15 - No alcohol
14:20 - No phone
20:16 - Discipline
41:28 - Telegram: Lean philosophy, privacy, and geopolitics
56:50 - Arrest in France
1:13:01 - Romanian elections
1:23:56 - Power and corruption
1:33:29 - Intense education
1:45:29 - Nikolai Durov
1:49:58 - Programming and video games
1:54:11 - VK origins & engineering
2:11:24 - Hiring a great team
2:20:40 - Telegram engineering & design
2:39:42 - Encryption
2:44:39 - Open source
2:49:26 - Edward Snowden
2:51:58 - Intelligence agencies
2:53:10 - Iran and Russia government pressure
2:56:19 - Apple
3:03:16 - Poisoning
3:29:28 - Elon Musk
3:35:31 - Money
3:44:23 - TON
3:54:13 - Bitcoin
3:57:12 - Two chairs dilemma
4:03:52 - Children
4:15:02 - Father
4:19:33 - Quantum immortality
4:26:05 - Kafka
introduction to #omarchy in Vietnamese
piped.video/watch?v=I7UREYW8…
Thanks @dhh for making Omarchy ^^.
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"You are commanded to go do something productive with your life."
"To go give and to produce and to risk and to then go sow into other people. That is a Biblical idea that has made the world a profoundly better place."
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