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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The DeepSeek Panic

What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The DeepSeek Panic

How one app brought the US-China A.I. war out into the open.

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February 2, 202522m 27s

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The artificial intelligence industry was thrown for a loop when the Chinese start-up DeepSeek rolled out a product that was more energy efficient, cheaper to produce, and open source. Where did DeepSeek come from, and are Silicon Valley and Washington right to be panicking? 


Guest: Zeyi Yang, senior writer at WIRED.


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Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Patrick Fort, and Cheyna Roth.


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