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#84: China's DeepSeek Shakes the Tech World

#84: China's DeepSeek Shakes the Tech World

Update: 2025-01-311
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DeepSeek—a name no one had even heard of until last week—has since given Big Tech a run for its money.




Soon after the news, they torched $1 trillion from Nvidia and other giants' market caps.




And while AI researchers call it “distillation,” aren’t LLMs recursive by design? Everyone’s distilling someone else’s work.




The real question: Did DeepSeek actually crack efficient training? Or just drop the right meme at the right time?




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4) Brit Morin: https://x.com/brit




(00:00:00 ) Trailer


(00:01:03 ) Under the weather


(00:01:43 ) News overload


(00:05:16 ) Subscriptions, trust, parasocial relationships


(00:14:21 ) DeepSeek and meme warfare


(00:29:09 ) Meme coins and the future of digital economy


(00:39:03 ) Regulation and trends


(00:44:04 ) AI is the tale of two cities


(00:49:40 ) Meta's strategic position


(00:55:29 ) DeepSeek questions


(00:59:13 ) Sam's watchlist


(01:01:35 ) Outro

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#84: China's DeepSeek Shakes the Tech World

#84: China's DeepSeek Shakes the Tech World

Dave Morin, Jessica Lessin, Brit Morin, and Sam Lessin