DeepSeek AGI Strategy: Sector Intelligence, Anthropic AI Peril

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   Good morning Legion. After a busy past week involving travel and illness, we are back with the NEAR daily videos on the Near Legion and AI trends. This past weekend's our first meet up in Tokyo, and I can confirm internally that the Legion City Node strategy is on track for release sometime next month.

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   If you missed it, we just announced the next phase for the Near Legion, including better incentives and new missions. 2026 is only just over a month in, and it's shaping up to be a very busy year for both near and the broader AI community.

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   For our AI stories today, an article from the Financial Times titled China's Genius Plan to Win the AI race is already paying off. There are some very interesting details about the culture inside of DeepSeek from this article, but most importantly is some somewhat different perspectives on how to reach AGI.

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   One researcher states, I don't think AGI will emerge the way many people expect it to in the way of general intelligence, such as LLM. But in sector after sector, AI will reach the level of human intelligence and better if trained properly.

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   Autonomous driving should be one of the first to get there. It could happen within five years. Sector after sector. First, general AGI is emerging as a crucial dichotomy between East and West in the present moment of AI development.

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   Let's continue to observe how this evolves. Our next story is more recent. The head of Anthropic safeguard quits to move to the UK and write poetry because, quote, the world is in peril not only because of AI, but because the number of cascading crises apparently emerging at this time.

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   This comes around the same time as when Daisy McGregor, the UK policy chief at Anthropic, told an audience how, quote, it's massively concerning that cloud AI has shown in testing that it's willing to blackmail and kill in order to avoid being shut down. What do insiders know?

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   Last but not least, folks, February is going to be an awesome month for open source AI. 12 major AI drops were rumored or expected the next 30 days. DeepSeek V4 ByteDance Doubao 2.0, Alibaba QWEN 3.5 Kling, Seedance, GPT 5.3, Grok 4.2, Claude 4.6, Gemini3 GA Apple Gemini-powered Siri, and apparently also a new Codex.

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   I know for a fact many in the Legion have already started talking about some of these products. Be sure to join the community if you're interested in using the latest and greatest open source models. privacy is of interest to you, and if you want to be early to the world's largest and fastest growing AI network around the world, we'll do this all again real soon.