Break time is over, it would seem, now that the new administration is in town.

This week we got r1, DeepSeek's new reasoning model, which is now my go-to first choice for a large percentage of queries. The claim that this was the most important thing to happen on January 20, 2025 was at least non-crazy. If you read about one thing this week read about that.

We also got the announcement of Stargate, a claimed $500 billion private investment in American AI infrastructure. I will be covering that on its own soon.

Due to time limits I have also pushed coverage of a few things into next week, including this alignment paper, and I still owe my take on Deliberative Alignment.