Deepseek: Miracle or Mendacity?

Bill Whittle Network

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4.9 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Its unveiling cost the Artificial Intelligence market’s darling, nVidia, to lose SIX HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS —overnight! China’s new AI startup, Deepseek, has turned the tech world upside down with it’s high performance at an astonishingly low cost, supposedly doing an end-run around nVidia’s high-end, export-restricted GPUs. But is this performance / price point real, and even if it is, is Deepseek — like TikTok and RedNote — nothing more nor less than Chinese Communist Party spyware? Join our crack team of elite anti-elitists by becoming a member or making a one-time donation right here: https://billwhittle.com/register/

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0:00.0	Imagine a world where the most cutting-edge AI technology isn't locked behind billion-dollar doors,
0:07.0	but is open, accessible, and affordable.
0:10.0	Welcome to the era of Deep Seek, the game changer, reshaping the AI industry.
0:16.0	Hi, I'm Scott Ott, and I didn't write that introduction to this show.
0:21.5	Deep Seek did.
0:22.8	I'm with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green, and in this episode of Right Angle, I'd like to talk a little bit about something that just caused Nvidia, the major success story on the stock market this year and in the past year to lose $600 billion in
0:40.2	value in a single day and the overall stock market market about a trillion dollars in market cap
0:45.5	and $600 billion? I think that was right. Yep. Yeah, their market cap, they had $3 trillion
0:52.6	market cap. Sorry to interrupt you, dude. Yeah. So here's the deal. I'm going to stipulate some things up front. There's a lot of unknown things right now. Basically, DeepSeek is a new AI agent. You can download it on your phone. I did for this. And I literally asked it. I it I said hey I'm about to do a 15-minute
1:13.1	three-person panel discussion of general news interest can you write me an opening a closing
1:19.3	and two questions and then I asked for a follow-up question and it wrote everything in about 12
1:25.1	seconds that all appears on this this one screen That's not new. ChatGPT is
1:31.3	able to do that. Google's Gemini is able to do that. Perplexity can do that. There are a number of other
1:35.9	AI tools that can do that. What is new is the claim that DeepSeek is making that because
1:42.6	they were restricted in their ability to access
1:45.8	Nvidia's latest GPUs, basically the engines that make it possible to do this massive computer
1:53.2	processing, because they were so limited in accessing that because they're based in China,
1:58.2	that they had to be a little bit scrappier.
2:07.9	Whereas some of these big companies have spent $100 billion creating one of these tools,
2:15.1	they said this project cost them $5.6, I think, $5.6 million.
2:17.6	Million. Yeah. And they did in two months. Yeah. So they did it in a couple of months, $5.6 million. Million. Yeah. And they did in two months.
2:18.1	Yeah.
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