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Friday 2 August 2024

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Launches and products

2 Aug 2024DeepSeekAPI context caching on disk Automatic disk-based prefix caching on the DeepSeek API: cache hits billed at $0.014 per million tokens, up to 90% cheaper than a miss.

People and teams

Daniel De FreitasCharacter.AI → Google DeepMind. Returned to Google with Noam Shazeer when Google licensed Character.AI's technology and hired part of its research team.
Noam ShazeerCharacter.AI → Google DeepMind. Google brought back Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas plus some Character researchers under a licensing deal, the third big reverse acquihire after Inflection and Adept; he later co-led Gemini.