Welcome to episode 164 of the AI for Career Success podcast from Curt Robbins. This educational content is designed to give working professionals who leverage AI as a tool for efficiency and productivity a competitive edge.

In this episode, hosts Daphne and Fred unpack a January 2 article from ZDNET entitled "How DeepSeek's New Way to Train Advanced AI Models Could Disrupt Everything—Again" about one of China's leading AI companies, DeepThink.

DeepSeek is an AI company that frequently garnishes headlines for its pioneering work in the AI space and the challenges it poses to American AI companies such as OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

DeepSeek has introduced a novel architectural framework called Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections to enhance how artificial intelligence is trained.

This technical breakthrough aims to maintain signal integrity across numerous neural network layers, solving the common problem where data becomes distorted as models grow in complexity. By optimizing these internal connections, the method significantly reduces the computational costs and memory requirements typically associated with high-end AI development.

This innovation suggests that frontier-level performance is achievable through sophisticated engineering rather than just massive financial investment. Such a shift could democratize the industry, allowing smaller developers to compete with tech giants by building powerful models more efficiently.

Ultimately, this approach may underpin the company’s upcoming R2 model, further disrupting the global landscape of open-source and proprietary computer intelligence.

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"It will not be AI that takes away the job of a technical writer, but rather another technical writer with deep AI skills," said Robbins.

I am currently taking on new clients. I enjoy helping companies with their documentation and communications strategy and implementation. Contact me to learn about my reasonable rates and fast turnaround. — Curt

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>> Read the ZDNET article: https://tinyurl.com/3tbzyxpf

>> Read the Curt Robbins article "The Global AI Race: America vs. China": https://tinyurl.com/2uckj7wy

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding AI Hallucinations in Technical Writing": https://tinyurl.com/bdeyd64t

>> Read the Robbins article "Yale Study: Impact of AI on the Job Market": https://tinyurl.com/f3cuvvxn

>> Read the Robbins article "Why Large Language Models are Changing the World": https://tinyurl.com/bdfv63ca

>> Read the Robbins article "Understanding Anthropic: Rising Star in AI": https://tinyurl.com/46btw22z

>> Read the Robbins article "Comparing ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, & Grok": https://tinyurl.com/3zwttxhk

>> Read the Robbins article "AI Job Replacement Fears Are Good. Here's Why.": https://tinyurl.com/p5t27t7d

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