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Leaders with Francine Lacqua

In the City: What the DeepSeek Freak Out Means for the UK's AI Future

Leaders with Francine Lacqua

Bloomberg

Management, Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.664 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Bloomberg Opinion columnist Parmy Olson joins Francine Lacqua and Allegra Stratton to explain what DeepSeek’s surprise innovation means for the UK and everyone else. 

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Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News. Allegra, we had this massive crew ball on AI this week.

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Absolutely huge. I mean, on Monday when I was writing the readout, every hour seemed to be a sort of end-of-the-world headline, the biggest drop for Nvidia in market history, or that Deep Sea had to shut to new users. It just kept coming.

1:24.5

It's the fact that Deepseek, over weekend came in with this lower cost AI model.

1:28.9

So it's using cheaper chips than some of the other models that we're looking at.

1:34.2

And so people are suddenly freaking out and saying, if you can do the same for cheaper,

1:38.3

then China has a massive advantage compared to the US companies.

1:41.8

Yeah, it was powerfully called a Sputnik moment. So the analogy

1:45.1

there being 1957 when the US watched Russia put a satellite in space and realized that

1:51.3

they'd been outclassed. And that Sputnik moment has become this kind of short hand for sort of

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