China Challenges Silicon Valley for A.I. Dominance

Feb 3, 2025

Financial markets went into a panic last week over an obscure Chinese tech start-up called DeepSeek. The company now threatens to upend the world of artificial intelligence and the race for who will dominate it.

Kevin Roose, a tech columnist at The Times, discusses how DeepSeek caught us all off guard.

On today's episode:

Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The New York Times and co-host of the Times tech podcast, “Hard Fork.”

Background reading: 

• DeepSeek’s model has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress.

• Listen to “Hard Fork”: Your guide to the DeepSeek freakout.

   

Photo: Greg Baker/Agence France-Presse

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