DeepSeek Unveils 3V Model, The Most Powerful Open-Source AI Yet - 1

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DeepSeek Unveils 3V Model, The Most Powerful Open-Source AI Yet

  • Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
  • Fact-Checked by Justyn Newman Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor

The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released its latest open-source model, DeepSeek-V3, this week. The startup claims that its new large model includes 671B parameters and can perform better than frontier models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Anthropic’s Claude-Sonnet-3.5.

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  • DeepSeek released its latest AI model DeepSeek-V3 claiming it performs better than GPT 4o and Claude-Sonnet-3.5.
  • The Chinese AI company explained that the new model includes 671B parameters and it’s three times faster than the previous model.
  • DeepSeek-V3 is now the most powerful open-source AI model in the market

Users can interact with the model through the official website, read the company’s paper , and access the model via Hugging Face. DeekSeek said this new model is three times faster than the previous version released in November and has enhanced capacities and API compatibility.

🚀 Introducing DeepSeek-V3! Biggest leap forward yet: ⚡ 60 tokens/second (3x faster than V2!) 💪 Enhanced capabilities 🛠 API compatibility intact 🌍 Fully open-source models & papers 🐋 1/n pic.twitter.com/p1dV9gJ2Sd — DeepSeek (@deepseek_ai) December 26, 2024

“We present DeepSeek-V3, a strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model with 671B total parameters with 37B activated for each token,” wrote the company on GitHub . “Comprehensive evaluations reveal that DeepSeek-V3 outperforms other open-source models and achieves performance comparable to leading closed-source models.”

Many users, organizations, and companies have congratulated DeepSeek on its achievement. “Congratulations on the stellar release!” wrote Hugging Face on X , “The model checkpoints and a detailed report – truly Christmas is here!”

Andrej Karpathy —former researcher at OpenAI and head of AI at Tesla—shared a few thoughts too. “DeepSeek (Chinese AI co) making it look easy today with an open weights release of a frontier-grade LLM trained on a joke of a budget (2048 GPUs for 2 months, $6M).”

DeepSeek-V3 is now one of the strongest open-source AI models in the market and its paid API remains among the most affordable in the market.

Hertz Offers EV Rentals To Customers At Discounted Prices In The U.S. - 2

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Hertz Offers EV Rentals To Customers At Discounted Prices In The U.S.

  • Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
  • Fact-Checked by Justyn Newman Former Lead Cybersecurity Editor

The rental company Hertz has offered EV renters the possibility to buy the vehicles directly from them at a special price. Users on Reddit have been sharing the offers for vehicles such as Tesla, Polestars, and Chevy Bolts.

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  • Hertz has been offering its customers the possibility to buy the electric vehicle they rented at a discounted price.
  • The rental company said it’s a normal marketing strategy, but users on social media believe the company is removing the cars from their inventory.
  • A driver got offered a Tesla Model 3 with around 30,00 miles for $17,913 when the new model used to cost $40,000.

According to The Verge , this is not a new strategy and Hertz has been scaling down its ambitious plan of electrifying its fleet—by ordering 100,000 Teslas in 2021—as the demand hasn’t been as high as expected.

“By connecting our rental customers who opt into our emails to our sales channels, we’re not only building awareness of the fact that we sell cars but also offering a unique opportunity to someone who may be in the market for the same car they have on rent,” said Jamie Line, Hertz’s communications director to The Verge.

The special discounts for renters went viral on Reddit , where users shared screen captures and the messages they received from Hertz to purchase the cars they were driving, including Teslas, Chevy Bolts, and Polestars.

A driver got a special offer of a Tesla Model 3 from 2023 for $17,913 with less than 30,000 miles. Many users were impressed by the price, as a new model used to cost around $40,000 — it has been discontinued. “That’s a pretty cheap car… what’s wrong with it?” wrote a user. “They are slowly getting rid of them, and this is how,” added another.

The EV industry has been facing multiple challenges, and large automakers have been making big business decisions recently. A few days ago, GM abruptly shut down its robotaxi program Cruise in the United States.