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DeepSeek: Is this China’s ChatGPT moment and a wake-up call for the US?https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-is-this-chinas-chatgpt-moment-and-a-wake-up-call-for-the-us-9799686/
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released two new AI models this month. Their limited use of resources to achieve extraordinary results is making the world take notice.  ..The Chinese lab has created something monumental—they have introduced a powerful open-source AI model that rivals the best offered by the US companies. Since AI companies require billions of dollars in investments to train AI models, DeepSeek’s innovation is a masterclass in optimal use of limited resources.  ..

Even as AI companies in the US were harnessing the power of advanced hardware like NVIDIA H100 GPUs, DeepSeek relied on less powerful H800 GPUs. This could have been only possible by deploying some inventive techniques to maximise the efficiency of these older generation GPUs. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEBiebbeNCA  How China’s New AI Model DeepSeek Is Threatening U.S. Dominance

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/tell-me-about-yourself-xwLDeJHdTNCL5gRUyaYphQ 

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-perplexity-ai-AWkRzywZRmKewduLu3tBqg 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/27/deepseek-punctures-tech-spending-plans-and-what-analysts-are-saying/   While brokerage firm Jefferies warns that DeepSeek’s efficient approach “punctures some of the capex euphoria” following recent spending commitments from Meta and Microsoft — each exceeding $60 billion this year — Citi is questioning whether such results were actually achieved without advanced GPUs.

Goldman Sachs sees broader implications, suggesting the development could reshape competition between established tech giants and startups by lowering barriers to entry.  especially with recent new models developed at a fraction of the cost of existing ones; 2) from training to more inferencing, with increased emphasis on post-training (including reasoning capabilities and reinforcement capabilities) that requires significantly lower computational resources vs. pre-training; and 3) the potential for further global expansion

https://thewire.in/security/no-takers-for-navys-plan-to-decolonise-services-by-introducing-kurta-pyjama-in-dress-code 

Two of the Indian Navy’s (IN’s) recent initiatives aimed at furthering the BJP-led government’s political agenda of “decolonising” the services in the ongoing “Amrit Kaal era” and fostering indigenous military traditions, have made little or no headway.

One of these proposals that pertained to ‘Indianising’ ranks of 65,000-odd naval personnel below officer rank (PBOR) is believed to have been shelved, due to legal complexities involved in the proposed switchover.

The other proposal of officially incorporating kurta-pyjamas into the Navy’s dress code is observed more in abeyance than practice, as a wide cross-section of senior veterans and some serving officers consider it somewhat de rigueur, and have simply ignored it.

by Rahul Bedi

23/01/2025

Indian court jails first Christians under anti-conversion law https://www.ucanews.com/news/indian-court-jails-first-christians-under-anti-conversion-law/107657 

An official of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which runs the state government, filed a complaint against the couple in January 2023, accusing them of engaging in the religious conversion of people from tribal and socially poor Dalit backgrounds. The couple denied the charge, arguing that they were providing education to children and helping people stop drinking alcohol and quarreling among themselves. The couple had spent eight months in prison until they were granted bail by the Allahabad High Court last September. Christian leaders say judgment will not stand as an actual conversion was not proven

The state recorded 209 anti-Christian incidents in 2024, the highest in any Indian state, according to the New Delhi-based United Christian Forum (UCF), which tracks violence against Christians across the country.

At least 70 Christians, including pastors, are in prison in the state for allegedly violating the stringent anti-conversion law.