This Week in Tech (Week Ending Jan 31, 2025)

TL;DR - 🤖 DeepSeek; 👯 Tiktok seeks an owner; 💰 OpenAI funding

Hey folks!

🎉Happy Lunar New Year! (which was this past Wednesday) 🧧 especially to my fellow snake zodiacs! 🐍 and Happy February! Groundhog day is this Sunday - hopefully Punxsutawney Phil doesn’t see his shadow.

TL;DR

• This week’s main character is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup taking the tech world by storm.

• Tiktok: Perplexity AI revised its merger …