Forbes January 30, 2025
There’s a new wrinkle in the saga of Chinese company DeepSeek’s recent announcement of a super-capable R1 model that combines high performance with low resource cost.
It shook up the U.S. stock market, and it’s still creating shock waves around the world. Just check out the latest episodes of the AI Daily Brief where host Nathaniel Whittemore reads headlines like “DeepSeek Shocks Silicon Valley” and “Meta AI Panic Mode”.
But the newest allegation is that DeepSeek actually used a particular process to put together its training data, and it’s one that some consider to be a little shady.
The new U.S. president’s AI and crypto czar David Sacks is one of those who is getting in on the action, saying...