Why is everybody talking about DeepSeek now? And how it can destroy Nvidia?

🤑 Training top AI models today is prohibitively expensive. Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic spend over $100M on compute alone, relying on massive data centers with thousands of $40K GPUs.

DeepSeek flipped the noscript, managing to train AI models on par with GPT-4 and Claude for just $5M.

How?

🤖 By rethinking AI from the ground up. Traditional AI operates with excessive precision, using 32 decimal places for every calculation. DeepSeek simplified this to 8, reducing memory requirements by 75%.

The real game-changer? DeepSeek's "expert system." Instead of activating all 1.8 trillion parameters like traditional models, they call on only the 37 billion parameters needed for a task.

📉 This method decreases costs and hardware requirements dramatically:
- Training cost: $100M → $5M
- GPUs needed: 100,000 → 2,000
- API costs: 95% cheaper

💪 This enables smaller teams to compete in AI without billion-dollar data centers. It also poses a significant threat to Nvidia, whose business model depends on selling high-margin, expensive GPUs.

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Berachain: 3 innovations from the most hyped protocol of the last week

💧 Proof-of-Liquidity (PoL) consensus mechanism

Berachain uses a PoL model that integrates liquidity provision directly into network security.

Participants stake assets into liquidity pools, and these staked assets contribute to network security while also facilitating decentralized trading and lending activities.

The dual functionality enhances security while ensuring that liquidity remains active within the ecosystem, creating a more efficient and dynamic financial environment.

3️⃣ Tri-Token system

$BERA – The network’s native token, used for gas fees and staking.
$BGT (Berachain Governance Token) – A non-transferable governance asset earned exclusively through liquidity provisioning.
$HONEY – A native stablecoin mintable via over-collateralization.

🧸 Built on BeaconKit
BeaconKit is a new framework for Ethereum-based blockchains, serving as a modular consensus layer that brings CometBFT to EVM environments. It has several advantages:

🟢 EVM identical
🟢 Single slot finality
🟢 Optimistic payload building

We have 3 events during ETHDenver next week!

💸 Restaking & DeFAI Day (Feb 25th) - How restaking protocols can become the foundation for AI-driven DeFi systems? Can restaking provide security and capital efficiency for AI agents?

Lineup: Eigen, Ether. fi, Symbiotic, Mode, Kernel DAO, Kelp, Gain, Hyle, Giza, Bitcoin OS & more!

🤖 Agents Day - AI x Web3 (Feb 25th) - 2000+ already registered. Join top minds in AI & Web3 to explore autonomous systems, secure AI x Crypto integrations, and data privacy.

Speakers from ElizaOS, Solana, CoinFund, Virtuals, Outlier Ventures, NEAR & more!

🧩 Modular & L2 Day (Feb 26th) - event for web3 builders seeking in-depth knowledge about Scaling Solutions and Modular Stack.

Catch pokemons (speakers) from MegaETH, Manta, Fluent, Polygon, Nillion, Taiko, Starkware & more!

🤔 How can we make sustainable AI tokens?

Listen to the full podcast above 👆

🤖 Insight on the AI Agent economy from Marouen Zelleg, Co-founder of Crestal Network.

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