The Hustle Daily Show Battle of the LLMs: DeepSeek vs. OpenAI
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Feb 10, 2025 
Nathan Lands, host of The Next Wave podcast and AI technology expert, delves into the rise of DeepSeek, a new Chinese chatbot challenging traditional models like ChatGPT with its cost-effective and rapid capabilities. He discusses the competitive AI landscape, highlighting transparency issues and national security implications. As investments in AI are projected to soar to $300B by 2025, Lands emphasizes ethical concerns and the potential impact of emerging technologies on the U.S. market.
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DeepSeek's Disruption
- DeepSeek, a Chinese chatbot, is causing hype in the AI community.
- It offers similar performance to American counterparts but at a lower cost and faster speed.
DeepSeek's Origin
- DeepSeek's founder, Liang Wenfeng, has a background in AI and finance.
- He leveraged the compute resources from his quant fund to train the AI model.
DeepSeek's True Cost
- DeepSeek's reported low training cost of $6 million might be misleading.
- It likely benefited from pre-existing infrastructure and potentially used OpenAI's API for training.