<p>Thing You might've heard of the hardware guru who crammed Doom onto a pregnancy test. Well, the AI-geek equivalent just figured out how to reproduce DeepSeek for less than the cost of a [$50 gift card] Jiayi Pan, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkley, claims that he and his AI research team have recreated DeepSeek's R1-Zero in the countdown game, a number operations exercise where players create equations from a set of numbers to reach a predetermined answer. In an post announcing the team's findings on X-formerly-Twitter, Pan said that the small language model starts from "dummy outputs," […]</p>