Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition : DeepSeek defies AI convention (again)…Meta’s AI layoffs … More legal trouble for OpenAI…and what AI gets wrong about the news.

Hi, Beatrice Nolan here, filling in for AI reporter Sharon Goldman, who is out today. Chinese AI company DeepSeek has released a new open-source model that flips some conventional AI wisdom on its head.

The DeepSeek-OCR model, and accompanying white paper, fundamentally reimagines how large language models process information by compressing text into visual representations. Instead of feeding text into a language model as tokens, DeepSeek has converted it into images.

The result is up to ten times more efficient and opens the door for much larger context windows—the amount of text a language model can a

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