DeepSeek, Stargate, and the new AI arms race

On today’s episode of DecoderLet’s talk about ai ai – and enough all the world – he was able to talk for the last week: is, of the Open-source Startup a Chinese Startup completely has completed the conventional wisdom around chatboot, what they can do, and how much they should cost.

Deepseek, for those not allowed, it is very chat – there is a website and a mountain app and you can write in a text cask and you have talked to you. What makes special is how was built. January 20th of the main principal start, a model called R1, dropped over there, everyone’s last model to have to have the most of a minimum of lighter than the models of depressed are in the same level, or in some cases even better, as competent from open, meta, and google. Even: I’m totally free to use.

But that’s the real captured: While the training cost of the $ 100 million Depledeek, the R1 of Depleseek has fewer than $ 6 million to form the company’s applicants. In a mater, deep has gone virigal, becoming the n. 1 app in us 1, and Monday morning, boys in stock in stock.

Pooled investors wiped over $ 1 trillion stocks of technology in a frenzy frant before this week. Nvidia, especially, hi a mixed record of stock of spheres almost $ 600 billion when left 17 percent Monday.

For more than two years, now, executive Technici have told us that the way to unlock the full potential you were to throw the joke to the problem. Since then, scale has been king. And scale was certainly on top less than two weeks

AfterMath was a blood, to put it slightly. Venturing agricbled the alarm, calling time of thei ‘- and this appears to be as the industry ai global.

In deepseek and stargate, we have a perfect eis of the two competition visions for the older’s future. One is closed and darling, and needs to place an ever increasing amount of money and faith in open manure and partners. The other is angry and opening but with major questions around the censor of information, data privacy, and if it is really cost as we have been told.

What is cool we entered a new phase in the AI, and Stargate race and Stargate the two roads in the sucks AI. This is mostly mature, since the Chairman Donald Trump Contents Contain Havoc on foreign relationships with a new threat of foreign semiconductors.

There is a full go there – and the news cycle is in very fast moving. So to break everything, I invite Verge Senior AI reporter Kylie Robison on the show to discuss all the pastimes of the pastimes past and understand where the industry had run.

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