860: DeepSeek R1: SOTA Reasoning at 1% of the Cost

DeepSeek-curious? This Five-Minute Friday is for you! Jon Krohn investigates the overwhelming overnight success of this new LLM, the product of a Chinese hedge fund. DeepSeek is a market newcomer, and yet it runs shoulder to shoulder with behemoths from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google like it’s all in a day’s work. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/860 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email natalie@superdatascience.com for sponsorship information.

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The latest machine learning, A.I., and data career topics from across both academia and industry are brought to you by host Dr. Jon Krohn on the Super Data Science Podcast. As the quantity of data on our planet doubles every couple of years and with this trend set to continue for decades to come, there's an unprecedented opportunity for you to make a meaningful impact in your lifetime. In conversation with the biggest names in the data science industry, Jon cuts through hype to fuel that professional impact. Whether you're curious about getting started in a data career or you're a deep technical expert, whether you'd like to understand what A.I. is or you'd like to integrate more data-driven processes into your business, we have inspiring guests and lighthearted conversation for you to enjoy. We cover tools, techniques, and implementation tricks across data collection, databases, analytics, predictive modeling, visualization, software engineering, real-world applications, commercialization, and entrepreneurship − everything you need to crush it with data science.