Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Embraces DeepSeek's Open-Source AI, Ditching OpenAI for His Startup
DeepSeek's open-source AI is disrupting the industry. Gelsinger's startup ditched OpenAI for it, showing its potential to democratize AI.
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Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Embraces DeepSeek's Open-Source AI, Ditching OpenAI for His Startup
The tech world is abuzz with the emergence of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company whose groundbreaking open-source reasoning model, R1, is shaking up the landscape. This disruption is so significant that even former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, a hardware engineering veteran and current chairman of his own startup, Gloo, has publicly expressed his enthusiasm, revealing that Gloo has already transitioned from OpenAI to DeepSeek's R1. This move underscores the potential of DeepSeek's cost-effective and high-performance AI to democratize access to advanced AI capabilities and reshape the future of the industry. DeepSeek's R1: A Game Changer in the AI Arena: DeepSeek's R1 has made waves for several reasons. First, its performance rivals the most advanced reasoning models globally, despite being trained on a data center of just 2,000 Nvidia H800 GPUs – a significantly smaller scale compared to the massive clusters employed by industry giants. Second, the training cost of R1, estimate…
