Links Justin Sends #2

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

AI Santa delivered a lot of gifts for the holidays this year, check out some of the best ones in this week’s Links Justin Sends

• xAI Raised $6 Billion Series C — Grok went from zero to hero real quick. Currently leading major platforms in text to image generation and their language model capabilities are on trajectory to be highly competitive with OpenAI & Anthropic

• DeepSeek-V3 Launch — Super capable Open Source model rivaling Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet but exponentially cheaper ($0.27/million Input Tokens vs $3/million Input Tokens) — this is due to only 37B Activated Parameters which is super small compared to other frontier level models

• 12 Days of Exo — Put Exo Labs on your radar if it’s not already — leader in tech for cross architecture distributed inference of AI Models (Now you know why all of us developers are buying out every Apple Store’s Mac Mini Inventory)

Wishing everyone a great new year and stay tuned for more links!

-Justin

aka the guy with great AI links

Co-founder & Head of Technology @ BetterFutureLabs

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