DeepSeek – How a Chinese AI Startup Shook Silicon Valley

The release of a new reasoning model, known as R1, led investors to question US dominance in tech, their expectations around future AI capex while also raising the prospect that China might beat Silicon Valley at its own game.

The new DeepSeek model can “reason” to solve complex problems and performs as well as the AI software from US tech giants like Google and OpenAI, but was apparently developed at a fraction of the price of those models.

DeepSeek quickly overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most-downloaded free app on the US iOS App store.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s Vision for Your Future

What NVIDIA is trying to build next… Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories from our show Huge If True. I interviewed NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on January 7th, 2025. In the last few years, NVIDIA has skyrocketed to become one of the world’s most valuable companies. That’s because, beginning in the 90s, they led a fundamental shift in how computers work, now unleashing the current explosion of what’s possible with technology. A huge amount of the most futuristic tech you’re hearing about – in AI, robotics, gaming, self-driving cars, breakthrough medical research – relies on new chips and software designed by him and his company. During the dozens of background interviews I did to prepare for this, what struck me most was how much Jensen Huang has already influenced all our lives over the last 30 years, and how many are saying it’s just the beginning of something even bigger… We all need to know what he’s building and why, and most importantly, what he’s trying to build next, so you can decide for yourself what you think of it.