From Digger to DeepSeek: A Quest for Local Silicon
Photo by Imagine Buddy on Unsplash The bug bytes again; Beneath the hood, the hidden Sparks begin to run. From Digger to DeepSeek: A quest for a local AI model It was June 1988. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had just wrapped up the Moscow Summit, Steve Jobs was fueling intense industry rumors with his upcoming NeXT workstation, and Tim Berners-Lee was quietly circulating the first informal notes at CERN for what would become the World Wide Web. On the radio, Michael Jackson was dominating the summer charts as “Dirty Diana” became his record-breaking fifth consecutive number-one single from Bad. Meanwhile, Russia was prepping the launch of its ill-fated Phobos 1 Mars Orbiter, and I was an 8-year-old in Paris getting the bug — the desire to build my own computer. It was June of 1988, a whole summer in Paris! ...