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DeepSeek, Stargate, and the new AI arms race

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70% Informative

The DeepSeek chatbot is a free-to-use chatbot built by a Chinese startup.

The company's most recent major release, a reasoning model called R1 , dropped just weeks after the company’s last model V3 , both of which began showing some very impressive AI benchmark performance.

The aftermath has been a bloodbath, to put it lightly, as the AI industry and global financial markets are treating it.

OpenAI says it has evidence that its models helped train China ’s DeepSeek.

Nvidia loses about $593 billion of value of its $80 billion in a selloff.

Platformer Decoder with Nilay Patel is a podcast from The Verge about big ideas and other problems.

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59

Informative language

50

Neutral language

43

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

50

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short-lived

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