This startup wants to spark another DeepSeek moment

■ In this week's AI Lab: Prime Intellect hopes to disrupt the AI industry by letting anyone build and fine-tune their own frontier model. Also: A new form of agentic reasoning, a clever pair of teensy models, and a robot quite literally out of science fiction.

A bold idea for democratizing AI: let anyone run reinforcement learning

Ever since DeepSeek burst onto the scene in January, momentum has grown around open source Chinese artificial intelligence models. Some researchers are pushing for an even more open approach to building AI that allows model-making to be distributed across the globe...

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