#AI: DEEPSEEK AND THE PRICE OF COMPETITION. BRANDON WEICKERT, NATIONAL INTEREST
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 1:01.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. Bloomberg reporting. U.S. officials are probing |
| 1:09.8 | whether Chinese AI startup DeepSeek bought |
| 1:12.8 | advanced Nvidia Corporation semiconductors through third parties in Singapore, circumventing U.S. |
| 1:20.6 | restrictions on sales of chips used for artificial intelligence tasks. People familiar with the matter said. |
| 1:28.5 | I welcome Brendan Weikert of National Interest, a senior fellow, |
| 1:32.5 | and the national security correspondent for national interest, |
| 1:35.6 | as well as writing for popular mechanics. |
| 1:39.0 | Deep Seek has had a week of excitement on the markets and in headlines. However, early on, there was some question |
| 1:48.1 | about the price that Deep Seek says that it paid for the final run, matching open chat results that have cost hundreds of millions of dollars to produce the same |
| 2:05.3 | result. |
| 2:06.9 | The question is, how did they get it so low? |
| 2:10.2 | And now the new question is, how did they get it at all? |
| 2:13.6 | I think that pretty much sums up the questions that need to be answered. |
| 2:17.2 | This is a Chinese startup lab. |
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