DeepSeek R1: Under the hood & lessons for AI in India
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🚀 Recap: The Fifth Elephant March 2025 meet-up 🚀

The Fifth Elephant hosted an engaging in-person meetup on DeepSeek R1 on 21 March 2025 at the Koramangala Club.

🔹 85 participants registered
🔹 35 attendees participated, including senior engineering leaders, startup founders, and architects with 8+ years of experience

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The link for the slides is here

🎙️ Key takeaways from Harshad Saykhedkar’s talk

Harshad delivered a thought-provoking session on:
🔹 The core mechanics of DeepSeek’s RL training approach
🔹 Lessons learned from replicating the process on smaller models
🔹 What India’s AI ecosystem can learn from DeepSeek R1’s impact

📝 Read the full summary here

A huge shoutout to Harini Anand from The Fifth Elephant community for moderating the discussion!

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🎤 About Harshad Saykhedkar

Harshad is the co-founder of AbleCredit.com, a GenAI startup tackling India’s MSME credit gap using multi-modal AI models.

🔹 Former Editor of the GenAI track at The Fifth Elephant 2024
🔹 Delivered a high-impact talk on quantization at The Fifth Elephant 2023)
🔹 AbleCredit is his second entrepreneurial venture!

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DeepSeek R1 meet-up

DeepSeek R1 meet-up

Harshad Saykhedkar, co-founder at AbleCredit

1 hour21 March 2025

Venue

Koramangala Club

Room no. #203, 6th Cross Rd,

6th Block, Koramangala,

Bengaluru - 560095

Karnataka, IN

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