Friday’s AI Report
• 1. 🏭 DeepSeek exposes China's AI chip limitations!
• 2. 📝 Create McKinsey-grade decks with Xavier AI
• 3. 🌍 How AI reduced human effort by 75% for this renewable energy firm
• 4. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 5. 🛑 Consumer groups target Musk’s Grok
• 6. ✈️ Google tests AI travel deals
• 7. 📑 Recommended resources
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DeepSeek exposes China's AI chip limitations!
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Chinese AI start-up, DeepSeek—makers of the viral R1 model, which shook the industry when it landed in January, as it used fewer, less advanced NVIDIA AI chips and cost a fraction of the price to build and train, than others on the market—was forced to delay the release of R1’s predecessor, R2, because it was “encouraged,” by Chinese officials, to use domestic AI chips made by Huawei, rather than NVIDIA, which led to "persistent technical issues.”
🔓 Key Points
According to insiders, the “Ascend” Huawei chips led to issues like unstable performance and slower interconnect speeds, which meant DeepSeek had to push the launch of R2 back (it was due to launch in May).
Reportedly, DeepSeek has reverted back to NVIDIA chips for training the model, but has persevered with the Ascend chips for inference, which powers how the AI model makes predictions or generates responses.
Insiders said that Huawei even sent a team of engineers to help DeepSeek use their chips to develop the R2 model, but their efforts failed—a training run on the Ascend platform hasn’t yet been successful.
🔐 Relevance
DeepSeek’s setback highlights the limitations of Chinese AI chips—in comparison to US chips—and indicates that perhaps China isn’t quite ready to become technologically self-sufficient. Industry experts have slated Chinese AI chips, in general, for being unstable, slower, and inferior to NVIDIA. This could spell good news for the Trump administration, after recently striking a deal with NVIDIA and AMD to allow them to continue to export their chips to China in exchange for 15% of the revenue made from these sales.
Was China right to pressure DeepSeek to use Huawei chips for R2?
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How AI reduced human effort by 75% for this renewable energy firm
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy—provider of wind energy solutions—was completing wind turbine blade inspections manually.
This was labor-intensive and time-consuming, taking around 6hrs per blade, which tied up technicians and slowed production.
They developed an AI system that identified defects and highlighted areas for human validation, focusing manual effort where it was most needed.
As a result, wind turbine blade inspection time dropped to 1.5hrs, reducing manual effort by 75%.
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The Consumer Federation of America (CFA) has written a letter to the US Federal Trade Commission and US Attorney Generals in 50 states, calling for an investigation into Elon Musk’s controversial chatbot, Grok.
The letter, which was also signed by 14 other consumer protection organizations, comes after Musk’s AI start-up, xAI, released a “Spicy Mode” for Grok, which allows users to generate semi-nude images.
It highlights concerns that Grok and Musk “have a penchant for removing moderation safeguards under the guise of ‘free speech” and worries that this will lead to a torrent of “non-consensual deepfakes.”
Google has beta-launched a new AI-powered search tool—Flight Deals—which allows users to describe how, when, and where they want to travel (in natural language), and the AI will surface relevant options.
Google has suggested that the tool is suitable for “flexible travellers” who are looking for a cheaper deal, and gave an example query of: “ A week-long trip this winter to a city with great food.”
The pricing information comes from real-time data feeds from airlines and travel companies, and the tool will rank the results based on the percentage saved. It’ll roll out to the US, Canada, and India next week.
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