💸 Perplexity Looks to Make TikTok More Open & Personalized

AI startup Perplexity is considering buying TikTok’s U.S. operations as the deadline set by the government for the app to be sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, rapidly approaches.

🔗 AI Integration and New Features
Perplexity plans to merge TikTok’s vibrant video library with its advanced AI-powered search capabilities, creating a uniquely seamless browsing experience. They propose innovative features like:

• Citation-style references to enhance content credibility

• Automatic translation for multilingual access

• Improved personalization through linked accounts between TikTok and Perplexity

🏋️ Challenges and Competition
Despite the exciting vision, significant hurdles remain. TikTok’s U.S. operations are valued between $30–50 billion, presenting a funding gap, as Perplexity’s own valuation currently sits at $18 billion. Additionally, Perplexity faces fierce competition from heavy hitters like Oracle, Microsoft, and Frank McCourt’s investor group, compounded by ByteDance’s reluctance to sell.

⭐ Transforming User Experience
If Perplexity succeeds, TikTok users would experience enhanced personalization, enriched content discovery, and unprecedented transparency. The open-source algorithm could foster greater trust and fairness, while multilingual capabilities could extend creators' global reach.

However, this transformation might pose challenges for creators adapting to the new transparent, accuracy-driven content landscape. Overall, Perplexity's ownership could mark a shift toward blending entertainment with informed discovery, significantly altering TikTok's user experience.

🙊 DeepSeek V3-0324 Drops Another Banger, For Free

Just when we thought DeepSeek was taking a break, they jumped back onto the scene with another ChatGPT 4.5 killer: DeepSeek V3-0324. This time, they’re going for the non-reasoning models. Here are the specs: 

• Model size: 700GB

• License: MIT (open-source)

• Architecture: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)

• Key strengths: Coding, mathematics, front-end development

🤷 Why is this a big deal?
This latest non-reasoning model from DeepSeek introduces task-specific optimizations that massively boost performance, particularly in specialized domains like complex coding and advanced mathematics.

📊 How it stacks up

• Coding: Outperforms paid models such as Claude 3.7 Sonnet, especially in expert-level programming challenges.

• Reasoning tasks: Performs less effectively compared to DeepSeek-R1, highlighting a clear specialization in technical tasks.

Who should use it? Ideal for developers, coders, and businesses seeking advanced yet accessible AI tools for tasks like SEO, game development, and educational resources. DeepSeek V3-0324 is freely available via platforms like Hugging Face and OpenRouter, democratizing access to powerful AI resources.

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📜 AI History

In October 1950, Alan Turing published "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in MIND, the academic journal. This groundbreaking paper introduced the concept now famously known as the Turing Test, a critical method for evaluating machine intelligence. Turing's work remains a foundational text in AI and computing, setting the stage for decades of technological innovation and debate.

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