20VC: Deepseek Special: Is Deepseek a Weapon of the CCP | How Should OpenAI and the US Government Respond | Why $500BN for Stargate is Not Enough | The Future of Inference, NVIDIA and Foundation Models with Jonathan Ross @ Groq
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So everyone's seen the news about Deep Seek today. Is it as big a deal as everyone is making of it?
Yes, it is Sputnik 2.0. It is true that they spent about six million or whatever it was on the training. They spent a lot more distilling or scraping the OpenAI model. I can't speak for Sam Altman or OpenAI, but if I was in that position, I would be gearing up to open source my models in response because it's pretty clear you're gonna lose that, so you might as well try and win all the users and the love from open sourcing. Open always wins.
always this is 20 vc with me harry stebbings and today we focus on deep seek as our guests put it today this is sputnik 2.0 and joining me for the discussion is one of the best placed in the business jonathan ross co-founder and ceo of grok providing fast ai inference prior to founding grok jonathan started google's tpu effort where he designed and implemented the core elements of the original google chip But before we dive in today, here are two fun facts about our newest brand sponsor, Kajabi. First, their customers just crossed a collective $8 billion in total revenue. Wow. Second, Kajabi's users keep 100% of their earnings, with the average Kajabi creator bringing in over $30,000 per year. In case you didn't know, Kajabi is the leading creator commerce platform with an
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