DeepSeek's Reinforcement Learning driven Reasoning Model: Technical Innovation and Democratization of AI

This Panel Discussion co-organized by Global IIT Artificial Intelligence Forum and IIT Alumni of Southern California, provides an in-depth understanding of DeepSeek-R1 Model from both technical as well as business perspective. The distinguished panelists from various IIT campuses bring a wealth of knowledge from their experience working in Artificial Intelligence at some of the top firms of the world, including but not limited to Google, Meta, Amazon & Mckinsey.

The Panel will focus on the following Two Key Areas for Discussion:

1. Key Innovations in Efficient Reasoning driven by Reinforcement Learning without Supervised Fine Tuning (SFT) and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)

2. "Democratization of Gen AI" by making LLMs more affordable for SMBs & Start-Ups

Speaker Introductions:

🔹 Tushar Kant (Moderator)