What you need to know about DeepSeek and the AI race
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🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re diving into a listener’s question about the new artificial intelligence chatbot on the scene. Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s AI model is said to be more cost-effective, less complex, and in some ways, just plain better than OpenAI’s ChatGPT. We’ll explain why the stock market’s freaking out and what it means for the U.S.-China AI race. Plus, we’ll share a story about a historic test flight that’ll have aviation nerds smiling. And the iconic “When Harry Met Sally” diner scene is recreated 35 years later. IYKYK.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “How DeepSeek Went From Stock Trader to A.I. Star” from The New York Times
- “Chevron Wants to Tap Into A.I. Boom by Selling Electricity to Data Centers” from The New York Times
- “DOE Releases New Report Evaluating Increase in Electricity Demand from Data Centers” from the Department of Energy
- “China’s DeepSeek Ends the Party for U.S. Energy Stocks” from Heatmap News
- “Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan Return as Harry and Sally in Hellmann’s Super Bowl Spot” from The Hollywood Reporter
- Video: “Boom Supersonic XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier on historic test flight” from Space
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| 0:00.0 | Nobano, nova, nova, nova, nova, nov. |
| 0:03.1 | Kaya Risdahl. |
| 0:04.5 | How are you? |
| 0:05.1 | This is so nice. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm good. |
| 0:06.8 | How are you doing? |
| 0:07.6 | I'm well, thank you. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm well. |
| 0:10.4 | It's been such a while. |
| 0:11.9 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:13.1 | Jake's just jump. |
| 0:14.3 | I guess we're starting. |
| 0:15.5 | Oh, gosh. |
| 0:16.4 | All right. |
| 0:16.5 | Okay. |
| 0:17.0 | All right. I'm Kyle. Fristold. Welcome back to make me smart. Where we make today make sense. Kimberly is still in Cuba working. That's with air quotes. |
| 0:25.4 | Novo Savo is on the pod with me today. Hi, Nova. It's a nice job if you can get it. Hi, everybody. And hi, Kai. Thanks for joining us all. It's Wednesday, January 29th. And it's really good to be here. |
| 0:37.5 | We're going to change it up. Answer a listener question on this Wednesday. It's about one of the |
| 0:41.7 | big news stories of the week, and it's important, and it is not, oh, by the way, that |
| 0:45.9 | story. Here you go. This is Eileen from Portland, and I'm interested in your take on the |
| 0:53.3 | China AI release. There's lots of news about the bad |
| 0:58.0 | impacts on the stock market, but since it uses fewer chips, I'm curious if it has less |
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