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🐳 "ChatGPT just lost its job to AI." How Did Chinese DeepSeek Blow Up the AI Industry?

Who created the free ChatGPT competitor, is DeepSeek's arrival changing the AI race, and what's next? Let's get into the main topic of the week.

➡️ DeepSeek was founded by entrepreneur Liang Wenfeng in May 2023. A few years before, Wenfeng co-founded High-Flyer, a hedge fund that uses AI for stock trading.

➡️ The company's first AI models were better and cheaper than the other Chinese ones. At the end of 2024, DeepSeek entered the international competition with the V3 model, which showed results at the level of GPT-4o and Claude-3.5 Sonnet. We covered the V3 in detail here.

➡️ Soon, on January 20, the reasoning DeepSeek-R1 was released. It is as good as OpenAI o1 in most benchmarks and superior in some. Also, R1's API access is much cheaper.

➡️ By January 27, the DeepSeek app became the most popular app on iOS and Android in the U.S., displacing ChatGPT. Big Tech's stocks dropped down.

➡️ Nvidia suffered the most. Its shares fell by about 17%, its capitalization — by almost $600 billion. This was the largest collapse in a day for a single company.

💲 How Much Did the DeepSeek Models Cost?

We don't know. The training of V3, which the R1 is based on, cost $5.6 million. This figure does not account for the expenses related to pre-launch activities or the compute cluster comprising 2,048 Nvidia H800 GPUs.

🔐 Security. Conspiracies. Censorship.

Wiz discovered that DeepSeek's database, including some chat logs, was in the public domain. The backdoor was promptly covered up.

Elon Musk and Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang suspect that DeepSeek has more GPUs, but the company is hiding the real numbers because of U.S. export restrictions. Microsoft is investigating information about DeepSeek may have abused the use of the OpenAI API in training its model. However, there is no evidence of any of this yet.

DeepSeek stores data in China, which has alarmed ordinary users and the U.S. authorities. The service is prone to censorship: DeepSeek's models often don't answer questions about China's domestic politics.

On the other hand, DeepSeek is an open model: anyone can deploy it locally and without restrictions. For example, Perplexity AI-powered web search had integrated R1: without censorship or sending prompts to China.

🔜 What's Next?

OpenAI released the new o3-mini model. "It's fast, cheap, smart, and designed to crush DeepSeek," —Wired writes about o3-mini.

The real question now isn't whether Chinese startups can create a competitor to the o3-mini or a major version of the o3, but rather how quickly they will do it.

So, whose AI is the best today?

❤️ — ChatGPT
🐳 — DeepSeek
🔥 — Other: Gemini, Claude…

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This is a pedestrian bridge connecting Terminal One to Terminal Two at the Holy Ghost bus terminal in Enugu state, Nigeria 🇳🇬

what’s interesting is that the bridge’s length is equivalent to the distance from the Holy Ghost roundabout to Ogui Road by GTB or P&T. Using the bridge will save you a lot of stress.

#FlusioTravel

New car celebration.

In the years following the end of the civil war, the number of upwardly mobile Nigerians gradually increased. The oil boom was in full swing and the new upper middle class started exhibiting a sense of affluence.

Priorities now extended beyond building a house to embracing those creature comforts that would set the owners apart from the crowd (as well as improve their lives). Owning an automobile was one of such comforts and the crowning glory for most Nigerians in the 1970s and 1980s. The status of the owner was transformed immediately and the
individual was automatically tagged a "big man" or "big woman".

It wasn't uncommon to throw a party to "wash" the car with friends and relatives. This usually involved opening up the bonnet and pouring libations while praying for the safety of the driver and the car.

Photos: Chinyelu Oguejiofo "Commissioning, Mrs. Grace Efobi's, new yellow (Mitsubishi) Galant anywhere between 1977 and 1978 at the rear of Chris Chemists, 1 Okpara Ave., Enugu. As usual, friends and family were there for the occasion"

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If you step into this new bus terminal, you might mistake it for an airport.

This is truly commendable.

This alone should give you confidence to invest in Enugu State.

The place is really beautiful, I must say.

Ladies and gentlemen, Holy Ghost Bus Terminal is 90% ready.

Peter Mbah for president!l

Invest in Enugu.

#kelvin onovo

I never knew how massive this place was until I stepped inside.

Omo, this is the biggest development to come out of Enugu in the last decade. This is about to completely change the transportation sector in this city!

I heard that about 300 BRT buses have already been purchased, and civil servants will soon start using cards to pay for their fares. This is going to change the transportation sector in Enugu states
If you remember the Sullivan Chime era, this is like a modernized version of it—but way more advanced.

Omo, omo, I am literally jaw-dropped at the transformation happening there.

If you’ve left Enugu in the past two years, you wouldn’t even recognize this town anymore.

Now is the best time to come and invest in Enugu!

Someone should tell Peter mbah to drop his account number abeg. Omo this is too much ooo

#kelvin onovo Facebook

Oh Lagos, my old Lagos: How the night life of Africa’s most populous city lost its energy

“Detty December” is almost upon Lagos, but you would not know it from the atmosphere in bars and clubs throughout Nigeria’s largest city.

Lagos’s world-famous nightlife reaches its raucous peak during the month, when festive abandon by locals coincides with an influx of foreign currency-carrying diasporans. “Detty” is a light-hearted alternative for “dirty” in Nigerian Pidgin.

But the worst cost of living crisis in a generation, a product of radical economic reforms introduced by President Bola Tinubu, has gutted the west African country’s middle class — and sapped the energy from Lagos’s party spots.

The crowd was thin on a recent “Taco Tuesday” at Bature Brewery, a cavernous open-air pub usually packed with professionals enjoying a cold drink after work in the sweltering megacity. A floor manager wistfully admitted to a drop-off in both visitor numbers and bill amounts as guests curb spending.

Fintech operations manager Queen, 32, who declined to give her surname, said her days of impromptu splurges were gone. “You can’t even come out to have a drink,” she said. “Have you seen the cost of transport?”

Reviewing Bature’s drinks menu — bottled water costs N1,000 ($0.60) while the most expensive cocktail costs N10,000 ($6.20) — she debated the best value cocktail with her friend before settling on a N8,000 mojito. The minimum wage in Nigeria is N70,000 a month.

“I plan every outing these days,” Queen said. “I need to have an idea of the prices because I don’t want any surprises.”

Across Lagos — an economic hub of 20mn people that is home to Afrobeats music and an often ostentatious party scene — bars, restaurants and clubs are feeling the pinch. And proprietors and punters are clear about the culprit.

Since his election last year, Tinubu has embarked on a radical project of economic shock therapy, introducing dramatic reforms that he has said are designed to end the dysfunction that has long plagued Nigeria. The country of 220mn has fallen from being Africa’s largest economy to its fourth.


Tinubu ended fuel subsidies, which for decades allowed Nigerians to pay some of the cheapest petrol prices in the world. The subsidies cull turbocharged inflation, which hit a nearly three-decade annual high of just under 34 per cent in October. The naira has also suffered, losing more than 70 per cent of its value against the US dollar following two devaluations.

These measures have plunged many into poverty, but also destroyed the purchasing power of Nigeria’s professionals, its cohort of tech workers, business executives and engineers who were supposed to be the country’s growth engine. They were also the ones paying for the imported wine and lamb chops offered at swanky haunts in Lagos.


The half-empty bars and restaurants are a far cry from the infectious energy that made Lagosian nightlife famous. The city gave rise to pioneering musicians, such as Fela Kuti in the 1970s, before Afrobeats superstars such as Davido and Burna Boy exploded on to the global scene.

The chorus of “Lagos Party”, a 2009 R&B track by singer-turned-politician Banky W, captures the city’s self-confidence and swagger, boasting: “Ain’t no party like a Lagos party.”

But these days those who can still afford to attend nightspots are less than enthusiastic about paying for the dull atmosphere they often encounter.


Babajide Duroshola, a tech executive who took colleagues visiting from overseas out in Lagos recently, said they went to a popular nightclub and found it so empty they decided to go elsewhere.

“The manager ran after us to ask why we were leaving,” said Duroshola. “This was a place you had to call them before going previously . . . it’s only the strongest that go out now.”

Nahi Halabi, an entrepreneur who runs several high-end restaurants in Lagos’s business district of Victoria Island, said companies were caught between boosting prices in response to inflation and the weakening currency while still keeping meals affordable enough to attract customers.

He added that his restaurants faced three cost issues: paying for imported inventory, such as tomatoes and Australian steak, invoiced in dollars with a slumping currency; increased energy costs in a country with unreliable electricity; and raising salaries as inflation saps staff morale.

Halabi said there had been a clear change in consumer behaviour among his regulars, from customers opting for a glass of wine instead of their usual bottle to those ordering chicken instead of steak — a whole roast chicken for up to three people costs N59,200 while a rib-eye steak costs N96,000.

“People no longer have money to go out for lunch or dinner the way they used to,” Halabi said over coffee at one of his venues, the brasserie Slow. “And we can’t just increase our prices . . . We’re playing catch-up.”


https://businessday.ng/news/article/oh-lagos-my-old-lagos-how-the-night-life-of-africas-most-populous-city-lost-its-energy/

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Congratulations on this one

Melezenawii:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/niger-govt-receives-additional-50-cng-buses/

nice development

Kingzjayzee:
https://punchng.com/vivian-wilson-meet-elon-musks-20-year-old-transgender-daughter/

she made a choice and life goes on

FreeStuffsNG:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1rw4xdjql4o

This is bad, many people on that side has mental health issues

This is not new the politicians have the least faith in the country

officialwdhtv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRa4KUVWsjE

Canada-based Nigerian doctor narrates how a federal government official reached out to him to facilitate purchase of his fourth house this year

Sharing the experience on social media, the medical doctor revealed that the government official said he wants to settle his children as he does not know how long the current government will last.

However when the medical doctor confronted this official who pays cash only for houses he buys abroad given the current state of things in Nigeria, he allegedly said that those in diaspora always make it look like things are bad in Nigeria.

The doctor pushed back at this by stating that many Nigerians have camera phones and they see things happening in the country on social media.

He went on to say he doesn’t want anything to do with the govenrment official again, so all his punishments from God will go directly to him.

The doctor also told youths planning a protest that he’s with them in the spirit as politicians in the country only loot without tackling challenges Nigerians face.

#wetindeyhappentv

This sounds good but will they also put proper measure in place to make employers abide

officialwdhtv:
If you’re a tailor and you employ additional hands, you can’t pay the person below 70,000. If you have a housemaid you cannot pay them below 70,000- Senate President, Godswill Akpabio speaks on how the new minimum wage applies to all.

Take a listen!!!

#wetindeyhappentv


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-7xIqMUh80

Omooba77:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/07/abuja-property-revocation-abachas-family-drags-tinubu-wike-to-appeal-court/

the same abAcha that people couldn't cough when he was alive

Big man saga