What DeepSeek’s Breakout Success Means for AI
Speakers: Charlotte Jee, news editor, Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor, and Caiwei Chen, China reporter.
The tech world is abuzz over a new open-source reasoning AI model developed by DeepSeek, a Chinese startup. The company claims that this new model, called DeepSeek R1, matches or even surpasses OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1 in performance but operates at a fraction of the cost. Its success is even more remarkable given the constraints that Chinese AI companies face due to US export controls on cutting-edge chips. DeepSeek’s approach represents a radical change in how AI gets built, and could shift the tech world’s center of gravity. Watch as news editor Charlotte Jee, senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven, and China reporter Caiwei Chen discuss what DeepSeek’s breakout success means for AI and the broader tech industry.
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