Preview: Colleague Brandon Weichert comments that the DeepSeek claims and the Huawei workarounds for banned NVIDIA chips is a benefit to push AI Valley into innovation and results. More
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 3 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Another one is the Joneses at 27 now. New porcelain paving. Looks like Teralis Nordic. Everyone's going Nordic these days. Is the same fella doing it again? Ooh, dark buff. He's using dark buff seek a jointing compound. Betty's got a trade account at you, son. Terralis porcelain paving from £22 per square metre and seek a fast-fits jointing compound at 2999 each. |
| 0:21.9 | Plus, get 10% off if you buy two tubs. |
| 0:24.3 | All trade prices XVAT at 20%. |
| 0:26.8 | So now you can keep up with the Joneses and the Evanses. |
| 0:30.6 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Brendan Weikert of national interest |
| 0:35.0 | about the reports from China of competitive technology and |
| 0:40.0 | artificial intelligence. There's DeepSeek, yes, many doubts about some of Deep Seek claims, |
| 0:46.7 | such as its expense and how much power it used. However, it does, at least in the legend of it, drive enterprise innovation competition. |
| 0:59.7 | Brendan also singles out the new report from Huawei that, though it is forbidden from buying the high-end |
| 1:06.2 | NVIDIA chips that it wants, it has pooled together a number of |
| 1:11.4 | Nvidia and video chips it can buy and made a workaround. Wonderful, very |
| 1:17.4 | clever. And again, Brendan's point, innovation, competition. That's what makes |
| 1:24.9 | capitalism go around. Here's Brendan Weicker. |
| 1:28.8 | Welcome, China. |
| 1:31.2 | Let's go for it. |
| 1:33.0 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:34.5 | No, there's no doubt they're getting better and you're seeing more and more startups |
| 1:39.5 | kind of getting into this space, creating more innovation and competition. |
| 1:44.8 | You know, even the thing with China, I kind of go back and forth. |
| 1:48.2 | At the national security side, we don't want them being involved with this. |
| 1:52.0 | But at the same time, what China does is when they have something like the Huawei chips we were talking about or even Deepseek, it forces the American firms to get more competitive, more innovative, and to become more |
| 2:04.9 | cost effective. |
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