Today on the AI Daily Brief, what AI builders are actually excited about right now,

and before that in the headlines, DeepSeek drops their latest model.

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We kick off today with a new model from Deepseek, and there has been some interesting conversation lately around this company. Deepseek obviously set the tone

for a lot of this year when they dropped a reasoning model that thanks to its free access in a

friendly consumer app and its exposed chain of thought went sort of viral, rocketed to the top of the

US app charts,

and got everyone, including Wall Street, all totally freaked out about the capabilities of Chinese

AI. Now, since then, and basically as soon as there R1 reasoning model launched, people were

excitedly waiting for R2. We still don't have R2, but we did yesterday get their V3.1. Now, the V-Line of models are

DeepSeek's non-reasoning models that serve as a base model to build on top of. Now, given that this

is just a 0.1 version update, the model specs remain fairly similar. It's a 685 billion parameter

model up from 671 for V3, still utilizes a mixture of experts

architecture. The model was released without a ton of fanfare, although the official commentary

account did at least post the announcement of the update. One question is that they said in the

announcement post on Twitter that there was a longer context window, but it appears as though

both V3 and V31

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