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23:17Now PlayingFinancial 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.
GuestsKevin Roose () , a technology columnist for The New York Times and cohost 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 () .
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