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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The emergence of DeepSeek — a Chinese AI model that was developed for a fraction of the cost of leading Western ones, but seems to perform on par with them — caused chaos in the markets and electrified the tech industry. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Victoria Chamberlin with help from Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Rob Byers, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members The DeepSeek logo on a phone in front of a flag of China. Photo illustration by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everyone's talking about Deepseek.

0:03.0

Deep Sync.

0:04.0

Satya Nadella at Microsoft?

0:07.0

I think Deep Seek has, you know, had some real innovation.

0:10.0

Mark Zuckerberg at Meta?

0:12.0

You know, I think that there's a number of novel things that they did that I think we're still digesting.

0:20.0

And there are a number of things that they have advances

0:23.9

that we will hope to implement in our systems.

0:27.2

The President of America?

0:29.0

The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company

0:33.9

should be a wake-up call for our industries

0:36.4

that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win.

0:40.0

It's a chatbot. It's a white paper. It could help write code for a Tetris game.

0:44.4

Tetris. It could solve a math theorem. It's chips, you guys.

0:49.8

And today explained the week the world wilded out over Deep Seek. And also, what is Deep Seek?

0:57.0

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1:00.1

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1:18.6

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