Cheap AI Rivals Shake Up Billionaires, India Embraces Chinese AI, Google Quiet Launch Gemini, TikTok Traffic Recovers, Waymo and Uber Expand Robotaxi Service
Cheap AI Rivals Shake Up Tech Billionaires. DeepSeek's surprisingly cheap AI, built using clever distillation techniques and older hardware, is shaking up Silicon Valley and forcing giants like OpenAI to rethink their expensive strategies.
India embraces Chinese AI, and hosts DeepSeek models locally. India welcomes DeepSeek's AI models, boosting its own AI ambitions with a new, heavily discounted computing facility and plans for a collaborative regulatory body, fostering innovation and growth.
Google's Gemini 2.0 AI: A Quiet Launch. Google quietly launched Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental, its next-gen AI model, via a changelog. It boasts improved factuality & performance for coding/math. Available to Gemini Advanced users.
TikTok traffic recovers despite app store absence. TikTok traffic is nearly back to normal despite app store absence! Cloudflare data shows only a 10% drop. Legal uncertainty keeps it off US app stores.
Waymo and Uber expand robotaxi service to new cities. Waymo & Uber will expand the robotaxi partnership to Austin & Atlanta in early 2025 via the Uber app. This follows their Phoenix success & previous legal battles.
