Special Edition: DeepSeek's AI Breakthrough – Is China Changing the Game?
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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We're diving into the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek and what it means for America's AI race with China.
Why did DeepSeek send shockwaves through the U.S.? How does its security stack up against TikTok? And what could it mean for the world if China takes the lead in AI? The stakes are high, and the consequences could be wide-reaching.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, February 8th. By now, you've heard about the Chinese chatbot, Deepseek. |
| 0:05.2 | It shot to the top of app stores and wiped out billions of dollars from the stock market, |
| 0:08.9 | as investors worried a cheap Chinese AI model could beat out American competitors. |
| 0:13.7 | So how big of a deal is Deepseek, really? And how does China compare to the U.S. in this |
| 0:18.7 | AI race? Plus, why does all of this even matter? |
| 0:22.0 | Bill Drexel is a fellow at the DC-based think tank, the Center for a New American Security. |
| 0:26.7 | He specializes in artificial intelligence and the ongoing competition between the U.S. and China for global technological supremacy. |
| 0:34.1 | Today, he joins us to talk about why DeepSeek caused so much anxiety for American competitors, |
| 0:39.1 | how it compares to other chat bots like ChatGPT, and what the future holds for the AI battle |
| 0:44.2 | between the world's top two economies. |
| 0:48.7 | Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy Special Edition Saturday, when we sit down with a different |
| 0:52.9 | expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. Don't forget to tune in every Monday through |
| 0:57.8 | Friday for our regular episodes where we provide all the day's news in 10 minutes. I'm Erica Mandy. |
| 1:03.2 | It's now time for today's special edition Saturday. Bill Drexel, thank you so much for joining |
| 1:10.2 | us here on The Newsworthy. |
| 1:11.3 | Great to be here. |
| 1:12.4 | So first, can you just describe how big of a deal do you think Deep Seek is? |
| 1:16.4 | What was your initial reaction? |
| 1:18.3 | When it wipes out so much of the stock market, it's definitely a big deal. |
| 1:22.3 | I would say that the perception in a way is more important than the reality. |
| 1:26.3 | So what I think it really did was this was the wake-up call to American AI labs, |
| 1:32.5 | to the American government, to the American stock market, |
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