In episode 36 of The AI Fix, Graham and Mark take a long look at DeepSeek, an upstart AI out of China that was trained on a shoestring, shook up Wall Street, kneecapped Nvidia, and challenged America's AI hegemony.

Graham also discovers a remarkably f***ing effective way to remove AI snippets, a personal mobility robot gets a bit over-excited, some aliens regret installing an FTP server, and Mark explains what o3-mini owes to Spinal Tap.

Episode links:

• OpenAI releases o3-mini.
• Saying F*&! Disables Google AI Overviews.
• AI systems with ‘unacceptable risk’ are now banned in the EU.
• Movr: the robot that has a human on its back.
• DeepSeek.
• On DeepSeek and Export Controls.
• How to get Deepseek to talk about Tiananmen square.
• Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek’s AI ‘reasoning’ model.
• Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data.

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