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China Challenges Silicon Valley for A.I. Dominance
Financial markets went into a panic last week over an obscure Chinese tech start-up called DeepSeek. The company now threatens to upend the world of artificial intelligence and the race for who will dominate it.
Kevin Roose, a tech columnist at The Times, discusses how DeepSeek caught us all off guard.
Guests: Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times and co-host of the Times tech podcast, “Hard Fork.”
Background reading:
- DeepSeek’s model has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress.
- Listen to “Hard Fork”: Your guide to the DeepSeek freakout.
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Photo: Greg Baker/Agence France-Presse
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