TechNode Weekly News | February 21
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Tsinghua University’s KTransformers enables full-powered DeepSeek-R1 with low-cost graphics card by Jessie WU
The KVCache.AI team from Tsinghua University, in partnership with?APPROACHING.AI, announced a major update to the KTransformers open-source project last week, local media outlet?National Business Daily?reported on Saturday. Now, with a 24GB VRAM 4090D (NVIDIA GPU), users can run the full-powered DeepSeek-R1 and V3 671B version locally. Pre-processing speeds can reach up to 286 tokens per second, while inference generation speeds peak at 14 tokens per second.
Xiaomi’s second electric vehicle model will feature an impressive driving range of up to 820 kilometers (510 miles), far ahead of the redesigned Tesla Model Y, according to the latest regulatory filings with China‘s industry watchdog on Monday.
Let’s face it: we’re all a little obsessed with AI these days. Whether it is asking ChatGPT to write a haiku about your cat or using DeepSeek to figure out why your Wi-Fi keeps dropping, AI apps have become nothing less than our digital sidekicks. All this, before? January 2025, when the AI app race hit a new level of drama. We’ve made a few charts to illustrate the explosive growth, fierce competition, and unprecedented adoption of these platforms. Spoiler alert: it’s not just about who’s winning, but about how fast everything is changing.
Ant Group has recently begun hiring for roles in embodied intelligence humanoid robot systems and applications, with annual salaries of up to RMB 1 million ($137,300), according to job listings on the Chinese recruitment platform Boss Zhipin.
On Feb. 18, Baidu released its fourth-quarter earnings?report, showing a 2% year-over-year decline in overall revenue, totaling RMB 34.1 billion ($4.77 billion). According to the report, the drop comes amid challenges in online marketing revenue, which totaled RMB17.9 billion ($2.46 billion), decreasing 7% year over year. However, the company’s AI cloud business stood out, growing 26%. This growth underscores the increasing significance of AI-driven services as Baidu strategically shifts toward an open-source model with its ERNIE large language model. Baidu has?stated?that DeepSeek’s success has inspired the open source move.
Huawei on Thursday detailed the first model under its top-end brand Maextro, developed with manufacturing partner JAC Motor, adding that the companies will begin delivering the car in May at the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Auto Show.