DuckDB goes distributed? DeepSeek’s smallpond takes on Big Data
DeepSeek has made a lot of noise lately. Their R1 model, released in January 2025, outperformed competitors like OpenAI’s O1 at launch. But what truly set it apart was its highly efficient infrastructure—dramatically reducing costs while maintaining top-tier performance.Now, they're coming for data engineers. DeepSeek released a bunch of small repositories as independent code modules. Thomas Wolf, Co-founder and Chief of Product at HuggingFace shared some of his highlights, but we're going to fo...
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