EP 460: DeepSeek Deep Dive - AI’s Sputnik Moment or a National Security Threat?

$100 million fine if your company uses DeepSeek? What happened, here? A few weeks ago, DeepSeek was the internet's darling. After grabbing international headlines and shaking the U.S. stock market to its core, it's been a shake week or two for the Chinese AI company.

So what's actually happening here? Should you actually use the model? Is it safe? Is it really a SOTA open source model?

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Topics Covered in This Episode:
1. Popularity of DeepSeek
2. DeepSeek’s capabilities and benchmarks
3. DeepSeek causing market disruptions
4. Global Reactions and Controversies
5. Analysis and Criticism of DeepSeek

Timestamps:
00:00 "DeepSeek: AI Revolution or Threat?"
03:20 Daily AI news
09:06 DeepSeek's Advanced AI Models
09:56 US Alternatives Boost DeepSeek Legitimacy
15:34 Data Security Risks with China
17:02 Potential Chinese AI Ban Looms
21:13 Confidence in Model and Media Blame
25:26 "Data Privacy Concerns with DeepSeek"
30:04 DeepSeek Model Cost Controversy
33:12 DeepSeek's Costs and Legal Issues
36:55 DeepSeek Bans Amid Security Leaks
38:24 Deep Seek Ban on Devices
42:44 Data Privacy Concerns in AI Platforms
46:55 DeepSeek: Not Truly Open Source
48:36 AI Podcast Success Story
52:48 DeepSeek AI: Threat or Hype?

Keywords:
Generative AI, DeepSeek, Chinese AI company, US Senate bill, $100,000,000 fines, prison sentences, national security threat, AI Sputnik moment, Microsoft, Perplexity, AWS, AI predictions, OpenAI, o3 model, International Olympiad in Informatics, Alibaba, iPhone AI features, Apple, ByteDance, Baidu, Tencent, Elon Musk, OpenAI takeover bid, transparency, data privacy, open source, state of the art model, LLMs, reasoning models, regulatory oversight, proprietary documents.

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