273: The Requisite DeepSeek Episode

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4.8 • 521 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It's been a couple of weeks since the Chinese firm DeepSeek released its new R1 large-language model and sheared an enormous amount of value off of American AI companies. Now that the dust has settled, we don our AI-skeptic hats again and try to unpack what makes this model different, including how it was made so much more efficiently, what opening it up for free means for paid competitors, and whether we might not have to burn down quite so many forests going forward. (Hint: Don't get your hopes up.)

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0:00.0	Okay, I've got a public service announcement here.
0:02.3	Oh, a PSA.
0:03.3	A PSA about this DBX.
0:05.6	Oh, DBX PSA.
0:07.0	Okay, I hit me.
0:07.7	A DBX PSA.
0:08.9	Remember the fuzzy, garbled, I don't know what you want to call it, you know, my audio issue.
0:13.3	I mean, it wasn't, you sounded not like a, it didn't sound like most audio corruption.
0:18.9	It sounded real weird. Yeah. There's a tiny little taste of it at the end of, I believe, episode 272.
0:25.1	Oh, sorry, 271.
0:26.1	Two episodes ago, I believe, like at the fairy tail end.
0:28.1	If you really want to hear what I'm talking about, but it just sounds like my audio gets kind of fuzzy, crunchy, rough,
0:33.1	something analog interference-y sort of? Yeah, it's not like, like there's a sound that a voice meter makes when it conks out or like a certain USB audio interface to make way they call.
0:45.7	It's not at all that one.
0:47.2	That's all I know.
0:48.5	Okay.
0:48.7	Well, now you know what it is not.
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:50.4	And it's not like, it's not like a loose connection on an XLR cable or a headphone jack or something like that.
0:55.7	Sounds electrical in nature.
0:56.9	I'll say that.
0:57.9	Yeah.
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