
Andrej Karpathy
@karpathy · Oct 20, 2025
I quite like the new DeepSeek-OCR paper. It's a good OCR model (maybe a bit worse than dots), and yes data collection etc., but anyway it doesn't matter.
The more interesting part for me (esp as a computer vision at heart who is temporarily masquerading as a natural language
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Long-term, >99% of input and output for AI models will be photons. Nothing else scales.
12:27 AM · October 21, 2025 · 3.5M views
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