Artificial Intelligence

Ronald Bailey | 1.27.2025 1:30 PM

The Chinese startup DeepSeek has released the R1 advanced reasoning model, a cheap open-source artificial intelligence, prompting Silicon Valley investor Marc Andreessen to declare that we have reached "AI's sputnik moment." The analogy implies that the product threatens American AI dominance in a way comparable to the space-race challenge posed by the Soviet Union's first orbital satellite in 1957.

The U.S. has imposed export controls on the most advanced computer chips, forcing the Chinese developers to optimize their new model using much less capable chips.........

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