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This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, February 6, 2025.

We tell you what you need to know, follow up on the context of those stories, and help each other understand.

Today, James McGuff tells us all about Ifa and more from your emails.

I'm Jason Howell. I'm Shannon Morse.

Let's start with what you need to know with a big story. A research paper released late last week

demonstrates how Stanford and University of Washington AI researchers created and trained an AI model that's capable of reasoning.

Reasoning is all the rage right now in a similar way to Open AIs recently announced O1,

and then of course DeepSeaks R1 models.

In this case, the model was trained for less than $50 in cloud compute credits through the

process of distillation. Now, distillation is where you essentially are sharpening the reasoning

abilities through analyzing the answers of Google's, in this case, Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash thinking experimental models. So it's

really using the input and the output of another model to train your own. That's essentially

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