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DeepSeek or DeepFake? We check out China's cheap AI

DeepSeek or DeepFake? We check out China's cheap AI

Update: 2025-01-31
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There's really only one topic for the Kettle this week - DeepSeek.

What began as a Chinese hedge-fund venture has blown away nearly a trillion dollars in stock market value from Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta. But is it all it's cracked up to be? We have our doubts, as you can see below.

Tim Prickett-Morgan on The Next Platform has been following this story before it broke, Tobias Mann went hands on with the LLM on Sunday and our editor Chris Williams has been testing the Chinese system extensively. As ever, your host Iain Thomson keeps things polite.

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DeepSeek or DeepFake? We check out China's cheap AI

DeepSeek or DeepFake? We check out China's cheap AI

Iain Thomson, Tobias Mann, Chris Williams, Timothy Prickett Morgan